Art
A Very Queer Street Art Movement Is Spreading Across the US
Self-labeled “queer street artists” are increasingly talking back against homophobia and claiming a share of ownership in public space through subversive and explicitly queer imagery.
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Film
The Art of the Museum Heist Movie, from How to Steal a Million to Ocean's 8
The new film, which revolves around a plan to rob the Met Gala, is the latest addition to the micro-genre of art and museum heist movies.
Art
British Exhibitions of Ethiopian Manuscripts Prompt Questions About Repatriation
Exhibitions at British cultural institutions have lately underscored the artistic output of Ethiopian scribes, and in the process, have also renewed questions around whether museums that have benefitted from acts of imperialism and colonialism should now return looted objects.
News
Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Launch New Art Grant, Giving 20 Artists $5,000 Each
Based on what they do with the money, four of the grantees will receive an additional $25,000.
Art
Titus Kaphar and Ken Gonzales-Day Reveal the Fictions in Depictions
Although both artists in Unseen critique omissions in the art historical cannon and offer compelling counter narratives, it is not enough to place their work in neighboring museum galleries and call it a show.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a federal judge upheld his prior ruling in favor of the 5Pointz artists, a municipal report suggested that Beatrix Ruf had been wrongfully accused of conflicts of interest, and Erwin Wurm's "Hot Dog Bus" began serving free hot dogs in Brooklyn.
Art
Lynn Hershman Leeson's Art Opens the Doors to Mysterious Laboratories
“I don’t know anybody else in the art world who has the capability of pushing scientific research in this way,” Leeson observes of her own work.
Opinion
The Little President with a Big Mural in a Children's Detention Camp
President Trump's new detention center for immigrant children in Texas houses 1,700 boys in a former Walmart and includes a mural featuring his image.
Art
From a Tower of Babel to a Concrete Ziggurat, an Artist Erects Monuments to Human Endeavors
Scott Hocking has spent months making labor-intensive constructions inside abandoned buildings or amid their ruins, creating mystical monuments that pay tribute to history.
News
Ornate 18th-Century Chinese Ceramics Make Waves at French Auctions
Plus Sean Scully donates over 20 works to a Dutch museum, and more results from Phillips, Christie's, and Sotheby's.
Art
Rituals of Liberation Intended to Unsettle at the Whitney Museum
Last night's performance at the Whitney Museum reminded the audience that they are all on unceded indigenous land, while exploring the implication of settler colonialism.
Art
The Painterly Brilliance of South Florida's Foliage
The 12 landscapes in The Magic Hour are limned with reverence, but there’s also the microscopic gaze of someone as curious as he is mystified.