Considering they’ve been making the internet rounds for over a month, I did not want to write about David Magnusson’s photographs of fathers and daughters who attend purity balls.
June 11, 2014
Posted inOpinion
Disciplinary Architecture or Deterrence by Design
Spikes installed to deter sleeping and sitting beside the entrance to a luxury building were brought to public attention on Saturday following a tweet by @EthicalPioneer that has since inspired petition and protest.
Posted inArt
Fondation Cartier at 30: Universalized Eclectic Global Art in Forward Motion
PARIS — This is a vision of a universalized eclectic global art in forward motion: a relational aesthetic that seems to hover over many exhibitions in France as a great correctness that cannot be questioned, only tampered with.
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Getting to Know the New Terence Koh
KLEINBURG, Ontario — In 2007 he described himself as “the Naomi Campbell of the art world.” Now he’s now hugging trees and talking about staying “in the moment” like a Buddhist zen master.
Posted inIn Brief
Previously Unknown Gauguin Reveals a Lot About the Artist
A previously unknown still life by artist Paul Gauguin has surfaced at Bonhams auction house in London.
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A Radical ’70s Mural Resurfaces … Next to a Panda Express
LOS ANGELES — I entered UCLA’s Ackerman Student Union hoping to blend in with the student body, find my way to a recently uncovered mural, and document the public’s reactions with an inconspicuous pinhole camera. But the building is a maze of chain eateries. And, after I pass a Carl’s Jr. for the second time, I accept that I’m lost. I turn right at the Jamba Juice and ask for directions.
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The Radical and Contagious Ideas of Lebbeus Woods
The long-awaited exhibition Lebbeus Woods, Architect at the Drawing Center presents works spanning over 35 years of Lebbeus Woods’s radical architecture.
Posted inIn Brief
Sotheby’s Uses Instagram to Announce “Breaking News”
We’re growing accustomed to the auction world’s desire to be perceived as cool. First it was skateboarding videos, then selfies, and now “breaking news” via Instagram.
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Jon Rafman’s Not-So-Still Life of a Digital Betamale
“As you look at the screen, it is possible to believe you are gazing into eternity,” says an absent, artificial female voice in the beginning of Jon Rafman’s NSFW “Still Life (Betamale)” (2013) video.
Posted inBooks
In Photographs of an Abandoned Town, a Post-Apocalyptic Puzzle
A silhouette of a ballerina is fading on an abandoned semi truck, a sign for Lover’s Lane warns of “falling rocks” and “high water.” And not a person is around. What is this strange and desolate landscape?
