Art
An Installation Traverses Texas and Mexico to Promote Cross-Border Communication
With “Border Tuner,” artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer said he’s not in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez to make bridges, but to highlight the bridges that already exist.
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News
Employees at One of LA’s Largest Museums Announce Plans to Unionize
About 50 employees of the Museum of Contemporary Art gathered outside of MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach’s office this morning and read a statement that formally declared their plans to form a union.
Art
As Walls Go Up at Unprecedented Rates, Artists Use Them as Subversive Canvases
The Annenberg Space for Photography maps the complex landscape of walls and rends, openings and sutures, that, to an ever-larger degree, defines our age.
Art
Enter an Eerie Nowhere Land, Where the Mundane Meets the Mythic
In Horizontal Vertigo: WangShui, the Julia Stoschek Collection hosts an exhibition of new works by the New York-based studio known for their explorations of technology, identity, and diaspora.
Announcement
College Art Association's Annual Conference Returns to Chicago, February 12-15, 2020
Four days for everyone in the arts with over 300 sessions and panels, dozens of receptions and parties, professional development workshops, roundtable talks, and exhibitors.
News
The UN's World Health Organization Says Art Is a Powerful Prescription
A study published by the World Health Organization, which collected data from 900 different publications over a 19-year span, offers important validation for the arts and new solutions for medical professionals.
Performance
Yvonne Rainer’s Conceptual Chess, Revived and Restaged
In its first performances since 1965, the recent Performa revival of Rainer’s Parts of Some Sextets prompts considerations of how we can safeguard the choreographer’s visionary oeuvre while staying true to her vision.
In Brief
AI Technology Helped Researchers Discover 143 Ancient Geoglyphs
Dated from the pre-Incan Nazca culture around 100 BCE, they span up to 328 feet and depict a variety of animals including birds, fish, snakes, foxes, and felines.
Film
Shining the Spotlight on a Broader Swath of Korean Cinema
“Korean Cinema” often refers primarily to celebrated auteurs like Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. A new series at Film at Lincoln Center offers a 21-film corrective, illuminating the wide range of contemporaneous production in South Korea.
Comics
Lost in Reflection With Yayoi Kusama
I could spend a week inside Yayoi Kusama’s infinity room.
Art
Iraqi Performance Artists Use Silence as a Gesture of Dissent
The Vienna-based group Iraqi Autumn draws attention to the international community's silence regarding the outbreak of violence in Iraq over the past two months.
News
Week in Review: PAIN Sackler Protests in London, An Exhibition of Political Art Censored in China
Also, LA's Museum of Contemporary Art will have free admission starting January 11, the Baltimore Museum of Art will only acquire artworks by women in 2020, and more.