In Brief
Ivory Queen Nabbed by Tanzanian Authorities
Ivory Queen is sentenced to 15 years in prison for smuggling $5.6 million-worth of ivory from Tanzania to China.
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Film
How Merce Cunningham Worked with Filmmakers to Make the Camera Dance
A series of films installed on the High Line make the camera an intimate actor in experimental dance.
Film
I Am Cuba, Restored and Reimagined
Newly restored and screening tonight, I Am Cuba raises questions about the ways film negotiates authenticity.
News
Metropolitan Museum Acquires Peter Doig Painting, and a Meteorite Sells at Auction
Plus, the Saint Louise Art Museums acquires a Kehinde Wiley painting, and the V&A acquires Ivan Kyncl's theatre photography archive.
Announcement
Design by Time Opens at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
Curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox of c2-curatorsquared, Design by Time is on view February 22 to April 13, 2019.
Art
An AR Installation Submerges the Whitney Museum in a Coral Reef of Plastic Debris
Tamiko Thiel’s “Unexpected Growth” is an augmented reality installation on the future of oceans and climate change.
Art
A Museum Gains Prominence Through Collecting Native American Artists’ Work
A gem of a museum in Ohio known for European masterpieces, gains contemporary relevance.
Art
Curators Experiment with Scale, Bringing New Life to the Jim Crow-era Photography of Hugh Mangum
A concise show of photographs printed for impact, at an enlarged scale and in color, magnifies questions about race in the United States.
News
Art Movements
Zimbabwe and Pakistan announce their Venice Biennale representatives, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery will move to the midwest, and more.
In Brief
Visitors to the Grand Canyon Museum May Have Been Exposed to Dangerous Radiation
For 18 years, three buckets of uranium ore sat in a museum storage area close to the galleries.
News
Investment Firm Behind "Fearless Girl" Sues Artist for Unauthorized Replicas
The company is pursuing legal action against the sculpture's creator, Kristen Visbal, saying she violated contracted terms amounting to trademark infringement.
Art
The Ghosts of Cotton in the American Landscape
John E. Dowell takes as his subject one of the most influential plants in US history.