Music • Weekend
How Much Dylan Do We Need?
The Bootleg series once served a useful function, but it has long since tipped over into decadence.
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Art • Weekend
The Challenges of Fashion in a Museum
Contemporary Muslim Fashions is an exhibition that is also a major political statement, one that should provide support for multicultural tolerance and understanding.
Art • Weekend
Larry Fink Illuminates the Drama of Boxing
Initially uninterested in boxing, Fink became hooked on exploring this world of grand ambitions and human vanity.
Art • Weekend
Italian Painting, Before the Fall
Metaphysical Painting offered a philosophical refuge for Italian artists shaking off their Futurist sugar high.
News
Ron English Plans to Whitewash a $730,000 Banksy, and then Sell It
After buying it at auction, the American street artist says he will paint the Banksy mural white as a protest against the buying and selling of street art.
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Taipei Biennial Leads Multi-Disciplinary Discussion on Interconnectivity of Ecosystemic Structures
Participants of Post-Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem include visual artists, NGOs, activists, film and documentary makers, architects and other non-visual artists.
Art
Turning the Artist’s Studio Inside Out
The exhibitions demonstrate the messy, intuitive processes by which artists combine experience, an understanding of materials, and dexterity to create objects that convey meaning.
Art
A Vibrant Arts Community Bridges Two Cities Separated by a Contentious Border
A cultural community has emerged in San Diego and Tijuana that recognizes where the cities diverge but also where they overlap.
In Brief
Easter Islanders Are Visiting British Museum to Request Repatriation of Ancestral Heritage
“For us [the statue] is a brother; but for them it is a souvenir or an attraction,” said a member of the Easter Island development commission, Anakena Manutomatoma.
In Brief
Denied Entry, Cats Try to Paw Past Japanese Museum Security Guard
The cunning kitties came to Hiroshima Onomichi City Museum of Art two years ago for a feline-centric exhibition and never left, demanding free entry.
Essays
Two Artists Address the Mass Venezuelan Exodus
In their work, Beatriz González and Teresa Margolles represent the hoards of people who have been crossing the Venezuela–Colombia border.
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