CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Among Pop art’s notable motifs are capitalism, consumerism, and now Catholicism.
Daily Archives: November 18, 2015
“All Artists Are Theater Artists”: Taylor Mac on the Connections Between Performance Art and Plays
Queerness revolts in the Podunk setting of Taylor Mac’s newest play, Hir, currently running at Playwrights Horizons.
Vending Machines That Dispense Short Stories Instead of Snacks
A strange new spin on the vending machine has cropped up in the city of Grenoble.
Celestial Art and Science in Albrecht Dürer’s 1515 Star Charts
The same year that Albrecht Dürer created his famous rhinoceros woodcut, the German artist also collaborated on the first star charts printed in Europe.
Artists Pick Artists: Mathew Hale
Mathew Hale has responded to the seven questions by making entirely new works as answers.
South Korea’s Art Community Protests Top Candidate for Museum Directorship After Censorship Fiasco
South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) will very soon have a new director, but the local art community is protesting the top candidate for the position, Bartomeu Marí.
A Pop-Up Exhibition Hopes to Save a Masterpiece of Googie Architecture
LEXINGTON, Ky. — As visitors walked through the historic People’s Bank in Lexington, Kentucky, bits of waxy, tan paint strips fell from the walls.
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: raccoons go on rogue art crawl, artists’ work is trapped after a gallery’s eviction, and a Star Wars print is swiped by Canadians who’ve gone over to the dark side.
Pussy Riot’s New Music Video Imagines a Refugee Revolt at Banksy’s Dismaland
“Refugees in, Nazis out / Governments here should feel the shame / Fucking liars, you’re to blame,” Pussy Riot sing in their just-released video, “Refugees In.”
Native American Artists Envision a Sublime Apocalypse
SANTA FE — An Evening Redness in the West explores the landscape of an apocalyptic world, investigating the doom of end times but also their promise of a new beginning.
Louise Bourgeois’s Anxieties Find a Home in Moscow’s Art Garage
MOSCOW — Should you find yourself among the fountains and fields of Gorky Park, and should you wander into the vicinity of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and should you be a serious, no-bullshit arachnophobe, look down at your feet and return the way you came.
Tricking Perception in a Maze of Mirrors
Natasha Johns-Messenger has created a maze of mirrors in “ThreeFold” (2015). It will make you laugh at how easily mirrors can trick and fool your mind.