Sometimes genres die quickly (electroclash), sometimes they remain with us forever (teenpop). Sometimes they stop developing and get kept alive indefinitely by loyal keepers of their flame and proud denizens of their subculture.
May 2016
Posted inBooks
Japan, in from the Wilderness: Reiko Tomii’s Expanded Modern-Art History
The Japanese-born art historian Reiko Tomii is one of those researchers who is both passionate about her subjects and recognized among her peers for her meticulous mapping of the cultural-intellectual terrain from which they emerge.
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Adam Simon’s Deadeye Realism
As is often the case with Simon’s work, the logo paintings require a period of conceptual catch-up before they can be seen as what they are, rather than as what they seem.
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UC San Diego Plans to Convert Art Gallery into Classrooms, Sparking Protests
The University of California, San Diego’s University Art Gallery is celebrating its 50th anniversary, but this may also prove to be its last year.
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Solve a Murder Mystery in a German Rapper’s Interactive Music Video
In German rapper Kontra K’s interactive video for “Next to You,” off the new album Labyrinth, a fisherman discovers a crime scene at a quiet lake house.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Qatar’s royal family settled a legal dispute with Larry Gagosian over a Picasso sculpture, Rome put out an emergency call to corporations and philanthropists for €500 million to preserve its landmarks, and street artist JR made the Louvre’s glass pyramid “disappear.”
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Dangerous Bodies on the Verge of Breaking Down
The Performance Anxiety series, curated by Ventiko, stages a monthly performance buffet on the Lower East Side.
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A Native American Artist Who Painted Pop and Challenged the Status Quo
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967–1980, currently on view at the Phoenix Art Museum, features over 40 oil paintings and prints by the Luiseño artist.
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Small Gestures of Humanity Amid the Ruins of Civilization
Science fiction is notoriously difficult to stage.
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Find Andy, the Waldo of the Art World, in ‘Where’s Warhol?’
Waldo, the cartoon protagonist of the famed Where’s Waldo? series, has more in common with Andy Warhol, the godfather of Pop art, than is immediately obvious.
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Essays that Collapse Time
Artist and writer Hannah Black’s videos — including “My Bodies,” “Intensive Care/Hot New Track,” and “The Neck” — combine images, texts, and sounds in a way that seems less about creating tension than exposing it.
