Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” already offers its own immersive, bizarre experience, with scenes of Eden and hell framing a hallucinatory garden.
February 12, 2016
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Facebook censored Evelyne Axell’s 1964 Pop art painting “Ice Cream,” a badger uncovered a trove of Bronze Age artifacts near Stonehenge, and Ann Freedman and the Knoedler Gallery settled a lawsuit brought by collectors who bought a fake Mark Rothko painting from the gallery.
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Plastic Bongs, Chinese Mini-Zines, and Endless Labors of Love at the LA Art Book Fair
The fair is a cornucopia of art-world rarities, oddities, and editioned experiments at every turn.
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Federal Agency Finds Labor Violations at B&H Photo, Fines Company $32,000
Health and safety conditions at B&H Photo Video’s two warehouses in Brooklyn do not meet federal labor standards, investigators with the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) have determined, confirming a number of worker allegations against the national electronics retailer.
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Playing with Time on a Gilded Age Piano
George A. Schastey had one of the most popular design firms among New York City’s Gilded Age elite, but now his work is barely known.
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A New Municipal Gallery in San Francisco Keeps Its Focus on the Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO — The 1960s upset the status quo in nearly all realms of American life. The decade issued radical ways of thinking about, making, performing, and exhibiting art, and San Francisco was at the vanguard.
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Vinegar Valentines: The Nasty Anonymous Letters of the Victorian Age
In the late 19th century, a valentine in the post might not necessarily mean a romantic message from a lover or admirer, it could be a downright acidic insult.
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See Joan Miró’s Majorca Studio Recreated in All Its Cluttered Glory
“My dream, once I am able to settle down somewhere, is to have a very large studio,” the Spanish artist Joan Miró wrote.
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Ancient Erotic Dreams and Explicit Scenes in the New York Public Library Collection
Eroticism has always had a rich presence throughout art history.
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Revisiting a Subversive Mexican Art Collective and the Country’s Forgotten Crimes
MEXICO CITY — At first glance, the room seems innocuous.
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In the Museum for 100 Days, a Performance Artist Pushes Us to Reflect on Time
BOSTON — There are so many layers to Marilyn Arsem’s piece at the Museum of Fine Arts that it’s a bit hard to know where to start.
