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Eileen Gray’s Masterpiece in the French Riviera, No Longer Overshadowed by Le Corbusier
While staying as a house guest, a naked Le Corbusier defiled Gray’s minimalist, color-blocked walls that were only restored in 2015.
I Like Your Show, I Swear
Keep your friends close and your bad art friends closer.
The Guggenheim and The World Around Present an Online Program Focused on Land
Hear from Holly Jean Buck, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, Simon Denny, Elizabeth Hoover, Renee Kemp-Rotan, Joseph Kunkel, and more at this free public event.
How Landscape Became Doctrine in American Art
In his new book, Tyler Green argues that landscape was Emerson’s method of glorifying territories shaped and bordered by white men.
The Loneliest Whale Tries to Find the Internet’s Favorite Whale
“The 52-hertz Whale,” which sings a song at a frequency no other whale uses, is a social media phenomenon. But this film shows that the phenomenon says more about us than whales.
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Opens Its Doors to the Public for Open Studios
EFA Open Studios offers a portal into the creative habitats of over 65 artists working in Manhattan’s longest-running studio program, including Dannielle Tegeder, Wafaa Bilal, Cui Fei, and Anina Major.
Paz Errázuriz’s Intimate Photos Document the Lives of of Trans Sex Workers in Chile
The unvarnished photographs celebrate the lives, beauty, and resilience of an oppressed group at Chile’s social peripheries in the 1980s, and the series was recently acquired by MOCA in Los Angeles.
Editions/Artists’ Books Fair Online Opens on October 18
51 international publishers and galleries showcase their latest editions in prints and artists’ books at this free public fair, which is fully online this year.
Study Shows Correlation Between Number of Confederate Monuments and Lynchings
The University of Virginia researchers wrote that the data “provides compelling evidence that these symbols are associated with hate.”
The Sounds That Get Lost in the Shuffle
We are waiting for spectacle and when the quotidian, yet incongruous actions occur I wonder whether there is any real payoff coming.
Internal and External Worlds Collide in Norma Tanega’s Psychologically Charged Art
Tanega’s approach to mark-making comes across as stream of consciousness, as if she’s engaged in a conversation with herself.
Do the strangers whom you choose to spend time with have to be those who cause suffering and death to animals? If you are “disgusted by our President and the Republican Party” (as am I, a socialist), how does spending time with those whose chosen form of recreation mirrors Republican “ethics” help? Hierarchy (with humans at the top), violence, lack of compassion, destroying families, the racism and misogyny that have proven to be far higher among hunters than non-hunters, to name just a few.
If you want to spend time with strangers, how about spending time with those who run vegan hunger organizations—or at any volunteer organization that works to help people and/or animals, w/o adding yet more suffering in the world?