Art Movements
Mary Deleary Named Director of IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Plus, the Boston Public Art Triennial’s curatorial team, Kinosaito fall artist residents, and Mariah Carey’s “Last Supper” selfie in this week's Art Movements.
Trump Administration
Congressman Calls on Smithsonian to Document Trump’s “Narcissistic Self-Worship”
Democrat Jamie Raskin’s proposed bill asks the institution to preserve items related to Trump’s “propagandistic assault on American history.”
Pocket Review
Frank Gillette’s Anthropic Blues
Elegiac, urgent, and infinitesimal, the videos and Polaroids in "Spectra Obscura" express distinct sorts of disappearance, decay, and fleeting natural phenomena.
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Announcement
Medical Imaging and Art Meet in the Exhibition “Overexposed”
The concurrent emergence of cinema and X-ray technology radically transformed how we see and understand the human body.
Art Review
I Wanted a Different Betty Parsons Exhibition
It might have made a more fascinating exhibition to explore her balancing act as a gallerist, but this show focuses on her less interesting art.
Daily Newsletter
Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie?
It’s the collaboration the art world deserves. Plus, we’re throwing a Halloween party!
News
Las Vegas Teen Killed in Arts District Shooting
Two others were injured at the October iteration of the monthly First Fridays art festival.
News
European Parliament Installs Gilded Nude Statue Mocking Trump
Danish artist Jens Galschiøt’s sculpture “The Orange Plague” depicts a naked Trump sitting on the shoulders of a man straining under his weight.
In Memoriam
Remembering Ingrid Wiener, Ian Berry, and Bob Masse
This week, we honor a Viennese Actionist, a journalist who captured Apartheid, and a poster designer for concerts and films.
News
LACMA's Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie Is What the Art World Deserves
The artist’s mobile outside the LA museum is the inspiration for a new drink à la Hailey Bieber, but in concrete gray with blobs of Calderesque colors.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October
Roberta Gentry’s visions in orange and blue, Jordan Nassar’s tatreez puzzles, 12 Japanese women who shaped hard-edge abstraction, Susan Silton’s feminist conceptualism, and more.
Art Review
The Hellhounds of Genocide
In Ridikkuluz’s paintings, the irascible dog emerges as a symbol for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
Opinion
The Museum Director as Gardener
Institutions are human creations. Building and reshaping them requires imagination, experimentation and a tolerance for uncertainty.