Members of a Virginia arts commission are calling a pair of Mark Ryden paintings blasphemous and threatening to slash funding for the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art for including them in a forthcoming show.
May 20, 2016
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Surreal Sculptures Come to Life in Yeasayer’s Trippy New Video
“Where’s my head?” sing Chris Keating and Anand Wilder of psych-pop band Yeasayer in “Silly Me,” a track off their new album Amen & Goodbye.
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Sexual and Playful Inflatable Bodies
PHILADELPHIA — Nancy Davidson’s sculptures have a bombastic quality, like an overbearing, gaudily dressed aunt who has just arrived late to a family gathering.
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An Evening of Modern Dance in Need of an Authority Figure
I received an invitation to attend a show titled “Authority Figure,” subtitled: “An immersive choreography exploring our relationships to surveillance, big data, and policing as it mingles with our psychology.”
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Art Movements
This week in art news: bronze statues and coins were salvaged from a Late Roman shipwreck, artist Pyotr Pavlensky was convicted of vandalism over a pro-Ukraine performance, and the Brooklyn Museum offered employee buyouts to help close its $3 million budget deficit.
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Urban Outfitters Wins Partial Victory Over Navajo Nation in Trademark Dispute
Urban Outfitters executives may spend the weekend partying in their infamous “Navajo Hipster Panties” and sipping from “Navajo Flasks”: the retailer has just won a partial victory in its ongoing trademark battle with the Navajo Nation, the largest indigenous tribe in the United States.
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Moyra Davey Channels the Ghost of Derek Jarman
7 Albums is elliptical; it is poetic. The show works as an additive — but one that’s both nuanced and gentle.
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A Half-Documentary, Half-Fantasy Telling of the Caribbean’s Colonial Past
MIAMI — There is a dizzying effect in Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s short film “Otro usos (Other Uses).”
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A Sculptural Forest Made from 10,000 Species of Trees
Glasgow-born, Berlin-based artist Katie Paterson has spent the past three years collecting wood samples from around the world, trying to check off all the items on her tree species wish list.
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A Fleet of 2,000 Pigeons Takes Flight in Brooklyn, Ruffling Protesters’ Feathers
For over a decade, helicopter pilots practiced their landings on the deck of the US Navy’s Baylander IX-514. Today, the now decommissioned and privately owned ship is serving as home base to flying creatures of another kind: pigeons.
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Revisiting the First American Folk Art Museum, Founded by a Modernist Sculptor
The rough finishes and loose poses of Elie Nadelman’s sculptures of circus performers, pianists, and dancers were influenced by his incredible collection of folk art.
