Art
A 1920s Polish Play Is Reimagined for the California Desert
A new play at CalArts sets Witkacy's The Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf in the unending landscape of Death Valley.
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Interview
A Brooklyn Curator Forges a Space for Black Artists in Her Home Gallery
Stephanie Baptist, founder of Brooklyn's Medium Tings gallery, has carved out a space of her own in the New York art world.
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As the Getty Digitizes the Archives of the Woman’s Building, Artists Remember Its History
Suzanne Lacy and others remember the Woman's Building, whose history is being preserved by the Getty Research Institute thanks to a recent grant.
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LA’s Venerated New Beverly Cinema Returns with Classic Programming
This month the theater officially announced it would resume operation in December, and its schedule ably shows off its programming sensibility.
Announcement
New NYC Museum Teams Up With Library of Congress for Animation Competition
Poster House will open in spring 2019, winning animations will be displayed in the facade of the museum leading up to the grand opening.
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French President Wants to Return Benin's Artifacts, But Will French Law Allow Him?
Emmanuel Macron's decision is a gesture of goodwill, but these objects comprise just 0.5 percent of the objects requested for restitution by the West African country.
Announcement
BRIC Presents Penelope Umbrico: MONUMENT
An exhibition that explores the monolithic state of current technologies in relation to their obsolescence. On view in Downtown Brooklyn through January 20.
Art
At the ICA Philadelphia, Visitors Seek the Insights of a Beloved Security Guard
Linda Harris represents the position that you don’t need to know everything about a work of art to comment on what it’s doing or how it makes you feel.
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Betye Saar Washes the Congenial Veneer Off a Sordid History
Saar's work is a poignant depiction of this nation's fraught history of race relations and gender politics, and this exhibition demonstrates the need for more major retrospectives of her.
Interview
AA Bronson Reflects on Rochdale College, His Family’s Colonial History, and General Idea
At 72, AA Bronson — co-founder of Toronto-based art collective General Idea, creator of the NY Art Book Fair, and former executive director of Printed Matter — is busier than ever.
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A Whitney Museum Vice Chairman Owns a Manufacturer Supplying Tear Gas at the Border
Warren B. Kanders, a vice chairman at the Whitney Museum of American Art, purchased defense manufacturer "Safariland" in 2012 for $124 million.
Art
The Allure of US Interior Design in the 1930s
Marilyn F. Friedman will discuss her book Making America Modern: Interior Design in the 1930s at Cooper Hewitt's Design Talk next week.