News
Art Dealers Could Be Under More Financial Scrutiny with New US Bill
The Bank Secrecy Act, created in 1970 to prevent money laundering in major financial institutions, could be extended to the art and antiquities market.
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Art
Tribeca Art Spaces Yearn for Love in the Time of Cholera
We're not the first, or last, to live in dark times, but artists are continuously finding new ways to cope with these everyday realities through art.
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Scottish Band that Supports BDS Was Banned, Then Re-Invited by German Triennial
Young Fathers were originally slated to perform at the Ruhrtriennale on August 18; they have yet to respond to the artistic director's invitation back to the triennial.
Performance
An Interactive Play in Which the Audience Members Are Dinner Party Guests
When making conversation with actors during the show, we were confronted with an awareness of how performative such chit-chat is in real life.
Art
27 Artists Grapple with the Fractious Politics of Thailand
While the majority of the artists of Patani Semasa deal with the contentious politics of the region, they don’t propose solutions, or lean on simplistic answers.
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Rumored New Banksy Murals Appear Around Paris
The six new murals include images referring to the migrant crisis and France's attempts to ban hijabs.
Art
Trenton Doyle Hancock Designs Dolls for a New Era
An exhibition of historic and futuristic dolls that points to the power of creating new mythologies.
Art
The Eerie Stillness of Domenico Gnoli’s Close-ups of Everyday Details
The paintings, of which Gnoli made only 40, have extreme close points of view that create a portentous, clinical intimacy.
Art
Required Reading
This week, contemporary art and global inequality, Melania's jacket and fascist history, queer Turkish identities, children and their toys, and more.
Books
Mirtha Dermisache's Writing Is a Rorschach test
Dermisache's drawings posture as communication yet undercut it through illegibility.
Art
Daniel Zeller's Cyberpunk Abstractions
Zeller is a cartographer of alien surfaces — recording something between skin and machine, reptile and vegetation, thermal imaging and imaginary highways.
Art
Susanna Coffey Studies the Nature of Portraiture
For years, Coffey has produced modestly scaled self-portraits with not a brushstroke of flattery.