Books
Ukraine's Monumental Soviet-Era Mosaics
Often unremarked or dismissed as state propaganda, Ukraine's Soviet-era mosaics are also artworks in themselves that speak to a complex history.
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In Brief
Nightmare Date Ends with Badly Damaged Warhols
What better way to say, “I’m into you,” than by drunkenly tearing paintings off the wall and throwing two expensive abstract sculptures across a room?
Books
An 18th-Century Compendium of Magic Revels in the Dark Arts
Touch Me Not from Fulgur Limited is the first color facsimile of a vividly bizarre 18th-century manuscript of the black magical arts.
News
Kerry James Marshall's Largest Work Yet Honors Women in the Arts
Marshall recently unveiled a 132-foot-wide, 100-foot-tall mural that pays homage to 20 women who shaped Chicago's cultural scene.
Art
Four Los Angeles Shows to Look Forward to in the New Year
From an exhibition about the first superstar curator to Pacific Standard Time's performance festival, there's strong work aplenty on the horizon.
Art
Romance, Dance, Drag, and Day-After Performance Art for New Year's 2018
From a high-caliber drag show to a daylong performance art marathon on the subway, there's a lot to do in New York City around the New Year.
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Giant Mural of Phallus on the Lower East Side Pricks Locals [UPDATED]
A provocative, building-length mural has aroused responses from giggles to outrage.
News
Artist Tim Rollins Has Died at 62
Through his more than three decades working with the collective KOS (Kids of Survival), Rollins developed a unique model for art as collaboration, activism, and pedagogy.
Art
When Encounters Between East and West Go Smoothly
At the Japan Society, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise, legacies of inter-cultural encounter are seen through a lens of global understanding.
Art
Imagining What Museums Might Become
At the CUNY Graduate Center, a multifaceted conversation on the future of museums showed some of the contrasting and competing visions for what they might become.
Opinion
As Confederate Monuments Fall, Do They Epitomize America’s Illness?
The recent removal of statues of Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest illuminates the many problems with the memorial landscape in Memphis and throughout the United States.
In Brief
Artists Build a Holocaust Memorial Beside Far-Right German Politician’s House
In response to comments made by a senior member of the Alternative for Germany party about Berlin's Holocaust Memorial, the artist collective Center for Political Beauty built a replica of it in the politician's hometown.