News
Week in Review: $650M LACMA Redesign Approved, #DontMuteDC Embraces Go-Go Music
Also, the Jewish Museum in Berlin will no longer accept money from the Sacklers, Saatchi Gallery is now a nonprofit, and more.
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Art
Lessons Learned at the Feet of Frederick Douglass
Isaac Julien advances a layered, palimpsestic view of time, not as progress but as a series of lessons. This, then is a note of what I learned.
Books
A Book Assumes the Voice of Louise Bourgeois in Uncomfortable Ways
Jean Frémon began his book Now, Now, Louison while the artist, who was also a friend, was still alive.
Art
Spiritualist Drawings that Open Portals to Other Dimensions
Often compared to the work of Hilma af Klint, dozens of rarely-seen drawings by the late Swiss healer and Spiritualist Emma Kunz are on view at the Serpentine Gallery.
Film
When Classic Hollywood Attempted to Deal with Sexual Violence
In a Lonely Place isn’t so much a straightforward thriller as it is a poignant psychological study of a person and a milieu, veiled as an atmospheric noir.
Announcement
Art, Architecture, and Philosophy in Aesthetics Equals Politics Edited by Mark Foster Gage
This book looks at how aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.
News
Getty Acquires Oldenburg and van Bruggen Archive, and Ancient Figurines Returned to Mexico
Plus, Giorgio Morandi and Pablo Picasso sell at auction.
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In Milan, Feminists Protest a Public Sculpture that Supposedly Stands for Women's Empowerment
A giant outdoor sculpture created by Gaetano Pesce as a critique of violence against women has angered Italian demonstrators in Milan, who say it actually perpetuates violence against women.
Art
Fiona Shaw Will Perform T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land in Madison Square Park
April may be the cruelest month, but artist Arlene Shechet is sweetening our sullen sojourn into spring with a free, epic happening.
In Brief
The First-Ever Image of a Black Hole Gets the Meme Treatment
Astronomers reached across intergalactic space to capture the photon eater some 55 million light-years away from Earth — but social media users see the black hole as something else entirely.
Art
The Legacy of Dan Robbins, the Man Who Taught Us to Paint by Numbers
When Dan Robbins passed away last week at the age of 93, many people paused to remember a man who made painting fun for the masses.
Film
A B-Movie that Inspired Generations of Filmmakers, Including the French New Wave
A precursor and inspiration for filmmakers from the French New Wave to Arthur Penn, Gun Crazy plays in New York on April 14 and 19.