Printed Matter’s Annual NY Art Book Fair Returns With 350+ Exhibitors This Weekend
Printed Matter’s 14th annual New York Art Books Fair kicks off on Thursday night with a preview at MoMA PS1.
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Vote on Central Park’s Contested Suffragist Monument Is Postponed
The New York City Public Design Commission said that the statue, which features Sojourner Truth alongside Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, still failed to address its concerns.
Events
A Festival Forges an Inclusive Community Through Film
This year’s Urbanworld Film Festival promises an engaging mix of narrative features, documentaries, and even some animated shorts, as well as a program of discussions and music running through the end of the week.
The Most Downloaded Artworks From the Getty and Met Museum
Both the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have created online databases that bring thousands of artworks to screens across the globe. Here’s what most folks download.
Books
How Surrealism’s Playful Aesthetic Was Deeply Political
The Surrealists’ insistence on irrationality was not a sport, but an attempt to engage in the political debates of their time.
Music
The Enthralling Drone Music of Pioneer Éliane Radigue
Today 87 years old, Radigue worked within the tradition of La Monte Young and John Cage in the 1960s and ’70s, moving between Paris and New York City.
Contemporary Filmmakers Are Using Fiction to Explore Facts
Several films at the Open City Documentary Festival unseat normal notions of “real” and “fake” in nonfiction.
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Stamps Gallery and New Media Caucus Present Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice
On view from September 20, 2019 – November 10, 2019 at Stamps Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Oh, Crap! Thieves Swipe Solid Gold Toilet Worth $6M
Maurizio Cattelan’s golden throne was stolen from the Blenheim Art Foundation.
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Black Cube’s The Fulfillment Center Considers the Role of Warehouses
This show considers the changing context of warehouses under the digital economy. On view at Black Cube’s newly opened headquarters in Denver, CO through December 7, 2019.
A Feminist British Illustrator Who Satirized the British Middle Class
Posy Simmonds was known for her particularly wry voice, but Paul Gravett’s book gives its namesake short shrift, not placing her clearly enough in the context of other illustrators.
Books
A Graphic Novel Looks at the Limits of Freedom in Revolutionary Cuba
By approaching Castro’s Cuba from the margins, author Anna Veltfort creates a unique lens through which to observe the mechanisms by which a political system acts upon those who live within it.