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Why the Victoria & Albert Museum Is Expanding to East London and Beyond
The financial logic behind the British institution's massive expansion project from east London to Scotland is certainly ambitious, but is it sound?
Zachary Small
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Sarah Lucas Makes Male Privilege Her Own
Filled with fried egg breasts and cucumber phalluses, Sarah Lucas's new retrospective at the New Museum illuminates her wry subversion of the patriarchal art historical canon.
News
After $31 Million Sale of 3,000-Year-Old Assyrian Relief, Experts and Artists Denounce Christie’s
Critics call the recent sale, which shattered previous world records for Assyrian art sales, a callous example of the art market profiting from suffering in the Middle East. Experts speculate that ISIS's destruction of cultural heritage sites may have boosted the value of the work.
Performance
Can You Still Stomach the US Constitution?
Heidi Schreck’s new play at the New York Theatre Workshop raises some difficult questions about how strong the foundations of American democracy are when Trump sits in the White House.
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Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens Receives $1.9 Million from New York City
The museum honoring the jazz musician and his wife Lucille Wilson is expanding and refurbishing its campus with the city's support.
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Republican NY State Senator Accuses All-Women Satirical Collective in Soros Conspiracy Theory
Republicans in New York's Westchester County have alleged that the Missile Dick Chicks, an all-women theater group formed in 2002, are agents in a George Soros conspiracy plot to undermine the county's state Senate election.
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Queer Artist Claims Bal Harbour Officials Censored His Photography
Pacifico Silano has accused the mayor and staff of a South Florida beach town of censoring his queer-themed exhibition and canceled his show in protest.
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After Call for German Minister's Resignation, Merkel Calls for Gender Parity in the Arts
The cognitive dissonance between Germany's art world and its government has been growing for some time, as the cultural sphere demands actionable immigration reform.
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Art History Parades Around the Streets of Japan Ahead of Halloween
"Beast Jesus" is finally getting his due alongside works by Picasso, Vermeer, and Munch.
In Brief
Nan Goldin Selling Signed Prints for $100 to Fight the Opioid Crisis
The artist is donating proceeds from the sale, a collaboration between Magnum Photos and the Aperture Foundation, to her activist group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now).
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Christie's Sells "AI-Generated" Art for $432,500 As Controversy Swirls Over Creators' Use of Copied Code
Before the auction, Christie's refused journalists' requests for comment on the questionable attribution of the AI-generated artwork. Now, the code's original creator, a 19-year-old working at Stanford, has publicly voiced concerns that the tech group misrepresented their moneymaking intentions.
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The Plurality and Progressivism of India's Modern Art Revolution
The Asia Society Museum's latest exhibition proves that India's modern artists wove their own way through abstractionism as their country changed around them.