Art
Hilma af Klint, Outlier for the Ages
Hilma af Klint reminds us that institutionally approved narratives generally function as touchstones for conformists and the weak-kneed.
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Holiday Gift Guide
This holiday consider buying some art-inspired gifts to ensure that your purchases help support cultures and communities you believe in.
Art
The Passion and Inspiration of Creative Couples
Modern Couples explores how creative couples reshaped modern art and redefined ideas of gender and love in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Lee Kang-So's Sensual Semiotics
What is the best way to convey something, especially if the essence of it seems to escape appearance?
Music
The Protest Music We’ve Been Waiting For
New albums from Superchunk, Noname, Blood Orange, and Tune-Yards strike a blow for the resistance.
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The Brutalist Invasion of Phyllida Barlow
Barlow’s sculptures may be abstract, but they feel rife with heads, teeth, legs, and orifices of every stripe.
Film
"Strippers Are Artists": A Documentary Celebrates Famed Portland Performer Viva Las Vegas
Thank You for Supporting the Arts chronicles the career of a writer, musician, and breast cancer survivor who sees her stripping as an art form.
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Brash, Self-flattering, Macho Excess at the Musée d'Orsay
In an exhibition timed to promote the release of Julian Schnabel’s film about Vincent van Gogh, the museum juxtaposes 13 paintings from its 19th century collection with 11 of Schnabel's works.
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Contemporary East Asian Photography Through the Lens of Time
The individual visual narratives in Time Frames make up our collective human history.
Community
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Australia, California, the Netherlands, New York, and West Virginia.
News
Week in Review: David Hockney is the Most Expensive Living Artist, Glenn Lowry Extends MoMA Directorship
Leon and Debra Black will donate $40 million to MoMA's expansion, MASS MoCA extends Sol LeWitt exhibition until 2043, and more.
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Hockney Painting Becomes Most Expensive Work Sold by a Living Artist, and US Returns Bells of Balangiga to Philippines
Plus, the Smithsonian acquires an Arthur Jafa video, and a Nazi-looted painting is returned to its heirs.