Art
The Rise and Fall of the Viking "Allah" Textile
There is something very troubling about what the Viking “Allah” story reveals about the relationship between news media and experts.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Artforum’s co-publisher Knight Landesman resigned over accusations of sexual harassment, Condé Nast banned its publications from hiring photographer Terry Richardson, and a bust of Napoleon newly attributed to Rodin went on public display.
Art
An Augmented Reality Coral Reef Thrives or Dies by Your Tweets
The White Noise augmented reality installation visualizes the online conversations we have around consumption and conservation.
History
The Disturbing Force of Early Color Photos of Nazi Camps
12 Nazi Concentration Camps is a body of work by James Friedman who, in the early '80s, took the largely unprecedented step of documenting Nazi camps in color photography.
Performance
Contemporary Ballet Adventures with Trevor Paglen, Science Fiction, and More
Drawing inspiration from other arts, BalletCollective plumbs the connections between visual, literary, and choreographic forms.
In Brief
George Washington Portrait Flips Off Trump in Viral Photoshopped Images [UPDATED]
A batch of four photos, tweaked by Portland-based satirist Mike Wellins, show portraits of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Jackson ridiculing the current US president.
News
Activists Splatter Red Paint on Roosevelt Monument at American Museum of Natural History
The early-morning action, by a new activist group calling itself the Monument Removal Brigade, is the latest in a series of protests demanding the statue's removal.
Art
Allora & Calzadilla Confront Puerto Rico's Fraught Relationship with the US
The Puerto Rico-based artist duo examine a tense, close connection with a poetic show using sculpture, performance, photo, and video.
Film
A French Director Who Turned the Experience of May ‘68 into Intimate Cinema
A retrospective of Philippe Garrel's films at Metrograph tracks their evolution from revolutionary hopefulness to disenchantment, hallucinatory metaphor, and poetic autobiography.
Art
A Ballet Inspired by a Western Finds Shape in Artist Elana Herzog’s Layered Designs
A new ballet in Brooklyn invited artist Elana Herzog to work in the theater for the first time, and the multifaceted work premiers this week.
Art
A Major Collection Considers New Ways to Tell the Story of Latin American Art
On its 15th anniversary, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation presents works from its Grants and Commissions Program, which has supported over 120 artists from Latin America in that time.
Art
A Wedding Ceremony Takes the Shape of an Art Exhibition
In Baltimore, two artists have upended the traditional wedding, realizing it as a month-long gallery exhibition and queer performance series.