Art
Jurassic Park Becomes Whimsical Performance Art
Jurassic Park: The Musical will feature video, puppetry, moving sculpture, songs, tap-dancing, and blood (presumably fake).
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Freedom of Speech Exhibition in Japan Closed Due to Censorship
After organizers received threats of violence, an exhibition at the 2019 Aichi Triennale was shuttered. The controversy stemmed from a statue of a Korean "comfort woman," highlighting the history of sexual slavery during World War II.
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Barbara Stauffacher Solomon Has Been Shaking Up Design for Seven Decades
Solomon embraced interdisciplinary work long before it became fashionable.
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Documentaries That Make New Connections Between the Personal and Political
At BlackStar Film Festival, filmmakers of color address topics ranging from immigration, to hip hop, to Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals.
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Facebook Settles 8-Year Case With Teacher Who Posted Courbet’s “Origin of the World”
After an eight-year legal battle, the company has finally reached an agreement with Frédéric Durand-Baïssas. The social media giant will make an unspecified donation to a French street art association, Durand's lawyer said.
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A Joan of Arc Film Brings the Saint Down to Earth
An expansive biopic, Jacques Rivette's newly restored 1994 film Joan the Maid focuses on Joan of Arc the human first — and Joan the myth, saint, and warrior second.
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Teen Charged with Attempted Murder at Tate Modern
| A 17-year-old has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly pushing a six-year-old boy off the 10th floor of the Tate Modern in London. Police have yet to determine a motive. Read the full story here [https://hyperallergic.com/512322/six-year-old-boy-in-critical-condition-after-being-thro
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Summer of Know, an Evening Conversation Series at the Guggenheim
On select Tuesdays this summer, the series will host artists and practitioners in dialogue about urgent issues such as climate change and environmental justice, Asian American subjectivity in pop culture, and housing rights.
Art
The LA Artists Who Advanced Black Stories Through Art-Making
The network of artists and collectors who were pulled into John T. Riddle’s orbit is the focus of an exhibition at the Craft Contemporary.
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Two Artists Ask: “Can We Think Across Borders Like Plants Do?”
Responding to violence at the US-Mexico and Israel-Palestine borders, Jess X. Snow and Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn painted a two-story mural addressing the ways plants can traverse vast lands.
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The Sprawling Ecologies of Olafur Eliasson
The curators of Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life have highlighted the the open-endedness of his practice by allowing the exhibition to spill out over the boundaries of the ticketed space into corridors, the terrace outside, and other places.
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As Parkland Parents Honor Son with El Paso Mural, City Struck by Walmart Shooting
Artist Manuel Oliver has painted 30 murals in honor of his son Joaquin and his advocacy for a compassionate immigrant policy. His latest mural in Texas has unwillingly become the symbol of a shared tragedy.