Most of us would be embarrassed if private letters we’d written in the notorious naïveté of youth were read by strangers.
June 9, 2015
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: cops catch Dale Chihuly employee stealing glass en masse, Nebraska teen lights sculpture on fire, and a Florida man’s tin-foil-wrapped house is not a hit with neighbors.
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Artist Tania Bruguera Arrested Again in Havana, Injured by Police
This weekend artist Tania Bruguera was arrested once again in Cuba, along with dozens of other activists, and was manhandled by the police.
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Israel Criticizes Swiss Support of Photo Exhibit About Palestine
The Israeli government is coming down hard on a photography exhibition in Switzerland that features images of daily life in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
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Designing a Revolutionary Visual Identity for the Black Panthers
“Art has relevancy, whether it’s to exploit you or pacify you, or to enlighten and inform you. It’s a language, that’s the power of it,” says Emory Douglas, the artist who drove the graphic identity of the Black Panthers.
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The Walker Art Center Moving Image Commissions: A Series of Six New Artist Films
The Walker Art Center is excited to launch Walker Moving Image Commissions with new works by artists Moyra Davey and James Richards.
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Recording the Fading Local Typography of Our Cities
One of the most overlooked design casualties of global homogenization is regional lettering.
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MFA Boston Establishes John Singer Sargent Archive with Trove of Letters and Sketches
You might say that Boston was to John Singer Sargent what Florence was to Michelangelo.
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Paintings with Pizzazz, and a Rhythmic Edge
If painting were merely a style — just an evocative pose channeling the gestalt of a time and place — then Don Voisine’s spare, elegant abstractions might be the equivalent of Leonardo DiCaprio in a tuxedo.
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The Cultural Boycott: Israel vs. South Africa
Editor’s note: The article was written by Omar Barghouti, who is a founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). PACBI is a member of The Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Campaign National Committee (BNC). This article is the fourth in a continuing series exploring BDS and its connection to the art world.
