Performance
A Celebration of Opera Affirms Its Relevance
From a monologue on death to a story about a police shootout, Opera Philadelphia’s productions showed us the many things opera can be.
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Required Reading
This week, architect unions, Aaron Sorkin writes a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Hal Foster on the new MoMA, Zadie Smith on Celia Paul’s new memoir, Kanye in Wyoming, and more.
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Leonardo da Vinci, Lost at the Louvre
What exactly is the matter with this exhibition? We had expected to be excited from the start, but we are not.
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The Fearless Faces of a Feminist Firebrand
With her series of plastic surgeries, ORLAN wasn’t using her face simply in a performance, but as an art material.
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The “Small-Time Crook” Whose Visions Defied Apartheid
An amateur photographer’s images of louche Cape Town nightlife in the 1960s capture a daring, booze-fueled, melting-pot spirit in the face of apartheid.
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Andy Warhol Dreams of God
Because the contemporary art world is such a secular place, there hasn’t been much attention given to Warhol-the-Catholic, until now.
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One Woman, 100 Men, and 100 Arguments
This 24-hour performance resembled a social psych experiment designed to test our patience and desire for change.
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Answering the Colonizers of Modernism
The paintings of Kenyan artist Michael Armitage present a particularly resonant response to the expanded, repackaged, and redefined offerings at the reopened MoMA.
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Neil Callander's Timeless Variations on Painting
Pushing his paintings in different directions and never settling for a signature style, Callander rejects the art world’s demand for novelty, entertainment, and the timely production of a latest brand.
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TEFAF 2019, Safe and Champagne-filled With a Few Elements of Surprise
Amid the current state of US politics, the latest fall edition of the fair offered a selection of mostly apolitical artworks as soothing as a BBC documentary.
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Vincent van Goat Helps Save the Reagan Presidential Library From Wildfire
Nibbles, Selena Goatmez, and Vincent van Goat were among the 500 animals that helped clear scrub surrounding the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library before the recent California wildfires broke out.
News
Nazi Memorabilia Slated for Exhibition Are Mostly Modern Forgeries, Experts Say
Many of the objects, which were slated for an exhibition at the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires, had multiple misspellings in German, misused or wrongly contextualized National Socialist symbols, and errors in the names of Nazi-era institutions.