Art
You Can Finally Listen to the Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum
Now, for the first time, visitors are able to hear the sounds of the historical instruments on display in The Art of Music.
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Art
The Illusion of Infinity and Our Quest for Perfection
Mirrored pyramids reveal that the perfect — or the idea of the infinite — exists only in the imagination.
News
Create Your Own Art Catalogue from LACMA’s Collection
A new program developed by the museum allows you to customize and print a book of 24 artworks, as well as write your own dedication and introduction.
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Artist’s Chemical Experiment with Rotting Fish Challenges the Museum
Lee Bul's seminal work "Majestic Splendor," removed from the Hayward Gallery, reminds us of the importance of collaboration among curators and conservators when making futuristic exhibitions.
Comics
Entitled Eating at a Museum Restaurant
This is the closest you'll get to a museum-themed restaurant in an actual museum.
Interview
John Akomfrah Discusses Channeling J.M.W. Turner and Disasters at Sea
“The Deluge,” a monumental Turner painting showing a Biblical flood, is currently paired with Akomfrah’s “Vertigo Sea” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Jeremy Corbyn pledged to return the Parthenon Marbles if elected, a report found that only 110 Confederate symbols have been removed since 2015, and about 100 Museum of Modern Art employees protested outside the museum's annual gala.
Art
Carmen Winant’s Radical Images of Women Giving Birth
In “My Birth,” Carmen Winant directly addresses our general discomfort with the physical aspect of childbirth, forcing viewers to look directly at it, the universal starting point.
Interview
A Brooklyn Gallery That Opposes Gentrification Is Forced to Relocate
HOUSING, whose mission is to support artists of color, will relocate from Bed-Stuy to an as-yet undetermined location in the fall.
Art
A Floating Glass Art Studio’s Four-Month Journey Around New York State
The Corning Museum of Glass's GlassBarge is traveling the New York waterways from Brooklyn to the Finger Lakes, offering free demonstrations of glassblowing.
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Over 400 Lichtensteins Go to the Whitney Museum and an Early van Gogh Sells for $8.3M
Plus the fossil of a 150 million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur fetches $2.4 million at auction.
Announcement
“Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts,” Christie’s Education’s 2018 Conference
Over the course of sixteen sessions, Christie's Education will explore women’s diverse contributions to the arts. The conference will be held in New York from June 26-27.