Opinion
Marco Rubio Slams Obama's Art History Apology
There comes a time when an American politician has to stand not for what's popular, but what's Right, what's True.
Mostafa Heddaya
Art
Google to Hang Its Doodle in San Francisco's Mission District
In the Bay Area, where Silicon Valley's private-shuttle ingenues are a nightmare vanguard to low-income residents in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, Google has taken the unprecedented step of directly leasing office space in one such area: San Francisco's Mission district.
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MoMA to Preserve Folk Art Museum Façade
Saving face is no longer limited to disgraced public figures — architects and their patrons can also get in on the action. The New York Times is reporting that the Museum of Modern Art intends to preserve the metal panels that make up the façade of the American Folk Art Museum building.
Art
'Paweł Althamer: The Neighbors' at the New Museum
A few blocks east of the New Museum's skyward stack, a small gallery recently closed a provocative show focused on the final years of Joseph Beuys, the forefather of social sculpture. Though Beuys' legacy in the social practice(s) of art is as manifold as it is contested, few have assumed his mantle
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Kill Your Phone: Artist Targets Surveillance
A Berlin-based conceptual artist artist, Aram Bartholl, has published a website to assist the craft-inclined and surveillance-averse in the making of their own Faraday cage pouch for their cellular telephones.
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Balthus Exhibition Canceled Amid Accusations of Pedophilia
In response to a public outcry, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, has canceled an exhibition of Polaroid photographs taken by the French-Polish artist Balthus, The Art Newspaper reported.
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Gagosian to Face Fraud Charge Over Sale of Koons Popeye
In a motion disposed on the 31st of January, New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick summarily dismissed all but one of six charges brought against international gallerist Larry Gagosian by the financier Ronald Perelman, Businessweek reported.
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Boycott Group Responds to Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Labor Conditions Report
In a statement released earlier this evening, the Gulf Labor advocacy group has responded to a report on labor conditions at Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island cultural development produced by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) consultancy.
Art
At the New Museum, Notes Toward Space's Oddity
"You know, Sun Ra is a formative figure for many young artists," Georg Schöllhammer, Vienna director of the curatorial collective Tranzit, avowed to me recently on the fifth floor of the New Museum.
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Cartoonists Petition Major Festival Over SodaStream Sponsorship
A slew of notable figures from the world of comics has piled onto the controversy that's erupted over Scarlett Johansson's departure from Oxfam over her relationship with the controversial Israeli carbonation appliance firm SodaStream.
Art
Saving Façade: Lowry, Diller Defend AFAM Demolition
On Tuesday evening, the New York Society for Ethical Culture hosted a forum on the Museum of Modern Art's expansion and the controversy surrounding its decision to demolish the American Folk Art Museum building.
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City Council Member Calls for Inquiry on Fiscal Improprieties at Queens Library
Queens Library Director Thomas Galante out-earns nearly all senior public officials in New York City, including the mayor and the head of the public transit system, the New York Daily News has reported.