Art
How Can Artists Help Shape More Humane Drug Policies?
An artist, an author, a policy expert, and a member of the itinerant Museum of Drug Policy discuss the many impacts of the global drug trade and efforts to control it.
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Art
Reconsidering Our Everyday Gestures and What They Mean
In her upcoming performances on the High Line, Swiss artist Alexandra Bachzetsis appropriates and redeploys gestures and movements from a range of high and low cultural contexts.
In Brief
Beyoncé and Jay-Z Return to the Louvre in New Music Video, Picking the Greatest Hits
But the pop music royals stick to the museum's main attractions in "Apeshit."
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Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Launch New Art Grant, Giving 20 Artists $5,000 Each
Based on what they do with the money, four of the grantees will receive an additional $25,000.
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Ornate 18th-Century Chinese Ceramics Make Waves at French Auctions
Plus Sean Scully donates over 20 works to a Dutch museum, and more results from Phillips, Christie's, and Sotheby's.
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Artists Support Themselves Through Freelance Work and Don't Find Galleries Especially Helpful, New Study Says
A study based on a survey of more than 1,000 practicing visual artists sheds light on the economics of making art.
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Anti-Brexit Work by Banksy that Was Initially Rejected by Royal Academy Goes On View
The street artist originally submitted the work under the pseudonym "Bryan S Gaakman."
Art
Imagining and Exploring Better Ways to Get Around NYC
The Van Alen Institute's FLOW! festival features a range of talks and activities to help designers, urbanists, and New Yorkers of all stripes find new ways of navigating New York.
Art
Artists Teach You How To Make Collaborative Drawings, DIY Reliquaries, Read Tarot, and More
The third edition of the omnivorous BombPop!Up series of workshops and performances takes over the National Academy of Design.
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Over 400 Lichtensteins Go to the Whitney Museum and an Early van Gogh Sells for $8.3M
Plus the fossil of a 150 million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur fetches $2.4 million at auction.
Art
Check Out Artists’ Studios in South Brooklyn, from Red Hook to Bay Ridge
Nine spaces will be open for this weekend's South Brooklyn Open Studios event.
News
The Pit Gallery Responds to Outcry Over Its “Glendale Biennial,” Vowing to "Do Better"
But authors of an open letter criticized the gallery's response, concluding: "the boycott stands."