Art
How Art Fails at the São Paulo Biennial
Recognizing that art can and does fail gave me room to think about my own tendencies and predilections as I walked through the exhibition.
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News
Week in Review: Syrian National Museum Reopens and La Sagrada Familia Fined $141M
An artist vandalized Francisco Franco’s tomb, Venice museums reopen after unprecedented flooding, and more.
Art
A Psych Ward-Inspired Trove of Outsider Art Finally Sees the Light
David Byrd's hundreds of haunting oil paintings, inspired by his job at a psychiatric ward of a VA hospital, were hidden from the public for decades, until a visit from a neighbor led the then-87-year-old outsider artist to land his first gallery show.
Performance
Can You Still Stomach the US Constitution?
Heidi Schreck’s new play at the New York Theatre Workshop raises some difficult questions about how strong the foundations of American democracy are when Trump sits in the White House.
News
The Met Acquires Work by Serena Perrone, and Big Andy Warhol Print Sale at Christie’s
Plus, Christie's sells a ninth century Kufic Qur'an folio, and the Art Gallery of Ontario acquires work by Ken Nicols and Sonny Asu.
In Brief
Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens Receives $1.9 Million from New York City
The museum honoring the jazz musician and his wife Lucille Wilson is expanding and refurbishing its campus with the city's support.
Comics
Voting Can Be a Form of Art
If art is self-expression, then voting is certainly a form of art.
Art
Historical Curiosities and Mind-bending Shorts at an Animation Festival
Based in Los Angeles, the festival has become a vital source for experimental cartoon filmmaking in a relatively short amount of time.
Podcast
The Book Object as Exhibition, an Interview with Dayanita Singh
We talk to Singh her discontent with photography that simply exist on the walls of art galleries and museums, and why she prefers to create objects that she conceives as mini-exhibition.
Opinion
A Coalition of The Willing: How Saudi Arabia and US Arts Institutions Partnered on a Cultural Diplomacy Offensive
Recent actions allegedly perpetrated by the Saudi Arabian monarchy, the brutal murder of a journalist, are nothing new, but have triggered an overdue interest in human rights among museum leaders.
Art
A Clown-Themed Art Show Advocates for Radical Joy
In an era of uniquely corrupt politics, looking to clowns seems like a way to experience radical joy
News
Republican NY State Senator Accuses All-Women Satirical Collective in Soros Conspiracy Theory
Republicans in New York's Westchester County have alleged that the Missile Dick Chicks, an all-women theater group formed in 2002, are agents in a George Soros conspiracy plot to undermine the county's state Senate election.