Art
Watching a 3D Printer Reinterpret African Tribal Symbols
Matthew Angelo Harrison has designed and built a machine that takes his ongoing work with abstraction in a different direction.
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Art
How the Evil "Other" Was Conceptually Constructed Over Centuries
Artists Kader Attia and Jean-Jacques Lebel’s transcultural and transgenerational collaborative exhibition attempts to face down and recover from human evil through the superfluity of artistic imagination.
Art
Filming Native American Performance Through a Decolonized Lens
In her three-channel video "Mother Drum," Dara Friedman avoids many of the problematic patterns non-Native artists often fall into when making art about Native American communities.
In Brief
Beyoncé Donates Bejeweled Butterfly Ring to Victoria & Albert Museum
The superstar's scintillating Glenn Spiro 'Papillon' ring is now on view in the V&A's jewelry galleries.
Film
A Documentary on Basquiat's Teen Years Tracks a Star's Early Ascent
Sara Driver's new documentary Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat wants to bring the young art star back down to earth, but often can't help positioning hovering him above.
News
Columbia University MFAs Share Stories of Dysfunctional Studios and Overworked Faculty
Current students and recent graduates of the revered program reflect on a series of internal crises that have come to light.
Books
What Blockchain Means for Contemporary Art
Now that the wild speculation on Bitcoin’s value and the explosion of fringe cryptocurrencies has died down, what has been revealed is a contiguous conversation regarding the use of blockchain technology in the work of several artists, designers, and thinkers.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: the Frieze Art Fair agreed to compensate galleries for the extreme temperatures in its New York tent, the School of Visual Arts removed two instructors accused of inappropriate behavior, and Save Venice Inc. announced a major restoration of Titian's "Assumption of the Virgin."
Art
How Ghada Amer Uses Seduction to Expose Sexism
Amer's exhibition at Cheim & Read, featuring images of nude female figures made all the more seductive by her choice of materials, is an iron fist in a velvet glove.
Art
A Photographer Gets Rare Access to the Interiors of Moshe Safdie's Iconic Habitat 67
While the exterior of this renowned building is well know, the interiors are rarely seen, until now.
Art
Portraits of Palestinian Life in America
Focusing on a handful of Gazan experiences, Home Away From Home examines how people construct familiar spaces for themselves within distant landscapes and is on view at Aperture.
Art
Reconsidering the Political Detachment of Eggleston's Images
This exhibition of William Eggleston’s color photographs developed from negatives made between 1965 and 1974, reminds me of the tagline from the 1969 film Easy Rider: “A man went looking for America, and couldn’t find it anywhere ... ”