Art
Adrian Paci Shows Us How We Mourn the Death of Dictators
A meditation on the theater of state funerals for dictators, artist Adrian Paci removes the focus on grief to focus on the mourners.
Hrag Vartanian
News
Last Leonardo Painting in Private Hands Is Going to Auction for $100M+
Here's your chance to get a work by the Italian Renaissance master in what may be one of the ultimate art trophies for the super wealthy.
Art
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This week, museum image rights, the inventor of the Papyrus font speaks, why a museum curator quit, is the internet changing time, and more.
Art
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This week, Algerian women in 19th-century art, adjunct problems, foldable homes, US's most famous Neo-Nazi artist is back in the news, the Christian monks that saved Jewish history, and more.
Interview
Reflecting on a Family Tragedy, an Artist Looks at Aleppo
An interview with artist Christine Gedeon about her current exhibition explores her personal history in Aleppo and a particularly painful family story.
Art
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This week, images from the Cassini space probe, medieval history's reckoning with Nazis, the artist behind many Pre-Columbian fakes, your brain on art, font detectives, and more.
Art
Two Thousand Years of Inuit Art Goes on Display at the Frieze Masters Art Fair
Dozens of objects make up Donald Ellis Gallery's exhibition of art by the indigenous people of North America's arctic region.
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This week, Paris's Lost and Found, a new contemporary museum in South Africa, Google does evil, rescuing a lost Albanian alphabet, logo redux, and more.
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This week, Basquiat is remembered by those close to him, art school bs, US political comics today, how a Houston museum prepared for a hurricane, what artists should do with waterlogged belongings, and more.
Art
A Garden of Possibilities at the Palestinian Museum
The new museum explores the living culture of Jerusalem, which curator Reem Fadda sees as a city that exemplifies the beginning and end of globalism.
Art
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This week, a museum prepares for Hurricane Harvey, a brutal architecture preservationist disaster, Melania Trump's use of fashion, Iran's pivot to video, and more.
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This week, becoming "fake news," Guatemalan artisans fight back, Larissa Sansour's film controversy, Chinese pro-military film propaganda, the trolls of Vermont, and more.