Some call it a plunge, some call it a correction, some call it the end of the world. The global economy grips its seat as the stock market slide rattles nerves for a second week in a row.
August 2015
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Galantis, Intimacy Machine
A cascading synthesizer shimmers as a nondescript female voice starts whispering various stock phrases. The melody builds a little, there’s a brief pause, then the singer becomes a chipmunk and the synthesizers start blocking out the beat.
Posted inArt
A Photographer Who Deserves to Be Widely Known
A few weeks ago, while a friend and I were driving to Rockland, Maine, where I was scheduled to give a lecture, we stopped in Portland, because I wanted to see the exhibition Rose Marasco: index at the Portland Museum of Art.
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Forty Years of Carolee Schneemann’s “Interior Scroll”
Forty years ago on August 29, 1975, the thirty-six-year-old artist Carolee Schneemann pulled a scroll from her vagina. The performance, titled Interior Scroll, is an essential moment in performance art history, and an important milestone in the artist’s provocative and influential oeuvre.
Posted inBooks
It’s Only Rock’n’Roll, But They Like It: New Books from Robert Christgau and Jessica Hopper
Recently, Time Out New York’s “Word on the Street” column offered this overheard snippet: “She’s never had sex and she doesn’t do drugs but she really loves rock’n’roll.”
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The ABC of Art Criticism: Some Recent How To’s
It has often been said that writing about art is like dancing about architecture. Nearly as often, it has also then been said: But I’m going to do it anyway.
Posted inNews
Ancient Rock Art in Utah Is Being Destroyed by Target Shooters
Rock art is one of the most fragile cultural treasures in the United States and some people are destroying them with their guns.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Tania Bruguera returned to the US following her detainment in Cuba, a group of archaeologists protested the brutal murder of Khaled al-Asaad by ISIS, and dealers Stefan Simchowitz and Jonathan Ellis King filed suit against artist Ibrahim Mahama.
Posted inOpinion
Why the ‘Daily News’ Cover of the VA Journalist Murders Is Exploitative
The three images on the cover of the New York Daily News literally show the moment of Alison Parker’s murder: the taking aim, the flare of the gunshot, and her shocked face when the bullet hits her.
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A Redesign of Chess that Sets Us Up to Lose
In 1924, competitive chess players in Paris founded the World Chess Federation, the first international governing chess organization.
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Ingrid Bergman at 100: An Appreciation
Bergman was a vital, daring force both in the films in which she starred and — through her bold initiative, forging collaborations and instigating projects time and again — in the course of the history of cinema as a whole.
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Artists Trade Their Work for Plane Rides and Gallons of Paint
DETROIT — There is a great tension between the investments an artist makes to produce work and the living she extracts from selling art.
