Books
A Book Traces the Evolution of Smooching for the Camera
People Kissing: A Century of Photographs begins in the Victorian era and traces attitudes about kissing from “chaste” to “performance for the camera.”
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Art
The Trickery and Silly Kitsch of a Supposedly Haunted Museum in Las Vegas
Zak Bagans’s Haunted Museum serves up one offensive gimmick after another.
Art
In Response to the British Museum, an Exhibition Demonstrates the High Cost of Iraqi Oil
An exhibition at P21 gallery highlights the human consequences of the exploitation of Iraq’s oil reserves, among them, environmental crises, state corruption, and youth unemployment.
Announcement
New York City Center Presents New Work by Jorge Otero-Pailos
For New York City Center’s 75th Anniversary Season, Otero-Pailos has created Répétiteur, an immersive, site-specific installation. The exhibition is free and on view March 2 – 10 and April 29 – May 5.
Books
A Journalist’s Year of Sunday Interviews with Diego Rivera
Alfredo Cardona Peña's conversations with the loquacious 63-year-old artist are available for the first time in English.
News
Art Movements
Serwan Baran will represent Iraq at the Venice Biennale, Naima J. Keith will take on a new role at LACMA, and more.
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A Former Guggenheim Director Thinks Museums Need to be More Like Theme Parks
Thomas Krens has launched an ambitious and sprawling plan to reinvent a Massachusetts town, drawing massive amounts of tourism to the region with new, for-profit cultural spaces.
Books
An Outsider’s Lens of 1960s New York
Japanese photographer Sumiharu Watanabe may not have known enough about the US to understand the changes taking place in New York City, but his lens captured them.
News
Banksy Sues Italian Exhibition for Trademark Infringement
Ironically, the secretive street artist once wrote: "Copyright is for losers."
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Judge Orders ARCO Madrid to Make Exhibitor Selection Process More Transparent
The fair, which opened its 2019 edition today, defends its “impeccable” selection process.
Art
The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Comes to Southern California Museums This March
The program kicks off this Sunday at the ICA LA, with an edit-a-thon focused on women and comedy.
News
Cohen Testimony Reveals Trump Staged High Bidder for His Portrait at Art Hamptons Auction
He told Congress, "The objective was to ensure that his portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon."