The Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts has apologized for hosting an exhibition in which 17 paintings purportedly by four of Vietnam’s most influential 20th-century painters proved inauthentic.
July 22, 2016
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Pokémon Go Is a Massive Art Happening and You’re All Invited
Sure, here’s the update: “It’s been two weeks and there are 35 million search results for Pokémon Go on Google and 9.5 million daily active players in the United States — which means, in terms of users, the augmented reality game has already surpassed its closest competitor, Candy Crush.
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Art and Body Politics at the Republican National Convention
CLEVELAND — It may come as no surprise that the Republicans who gathered here for the Republican National Convention put forth a political platform that many considered to be anti-woman.
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An Intricately Illustrated 19th-Century Study of Global Fashions
In 1876, French scholar and artist Auguste Racinet published Le Costume historique (The Costume History), an illustrated sartorial tour throughout world history.
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Confronting the Fears Detained Immigrants Face in the US
CHICAGO — On a grassy island surrounded by several roads at the center of Chicago’s Logan Square temporarily sits Jenny Polak’s “Mobile Speakers’ Podium for Citizens and Non-Citizens,” a creamy-white structure that at first glance looks like a miniature club house.
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“Trump Huts” May Crop Up Around US as Luxury Protest Tents
For the first three days of the Republican National Convention, a super-sized version of Donald Trump’s signature coiffure swept its way across Cleveland, inviting anyone to enter its gleaming, golden locks.
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Nowhere to Go in a Desert of Images
In Xaviera Simmon’s CODED exhibition, now on view at The Kitchen, there are a lot of intersections between the human, sexualized (and colored) body, and wide, visually monotonous land- and seascapes.
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Figures of Steel that Embody Our Fears
Antony Gormley has consistently plied a practice that’s about articulations and permutations of the human body, often fabricating his forms in materials that can withstand the vicissitudes of the natural environmental.
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An “Act of Love”: Knitted Portraits of Feminist Artists and Their Work
Kate Just, an American-born Australia-based artist, has long been committed to making feminist work that examines the human body experience.
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A Symbolic Wound Takes Shape in Norway to Remember the 2011 Massacre
It has been exactly five years since Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people in Norway.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Gagosian Gallery agreed to pay $4.28 million in back taxes to the state of New York, Jeff Koons laid off 15 studio workers who were attempting to unionize, and Florentijn Hofman unveiled a giant bear sculpture made of conifer tree branches.
