Performance
The Audacity and Abandon of Pina Bausch
In Café Müller and The Rite of Spring, currently playing as a double bill at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Tanztheater Wuppertal offers up catharsis followed by brutal physicality.
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Art
A Closer Look at Africa’s First Contemporary Art Museum
After over a decade in the making, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art from Africa is opening its doors on September 22.
Art
Navajo Nation Artists Respond to the Threat of Uranium Radiation
Nuclear contamination from abandoned uranium mines is rampant across the Navajo Nation, and a community of artists is raising awareness through a street art project and gallery exhibition.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Anish Kapoor's neighbors accused him of stealing their light, Phillips withdrew a painting attributed to Mark Grotjahn from auction after he questioned its authenticity on Instagram, and the Getty put Michelangelo's "Study of a Mourning Woman" on display.
Art
An App Tells the Overlooked History of the Largest Slave Port in the Americas
The Museum of Yesterday is an augmented reality app that excavates the secret histories of Rio de Janeiro, including its major role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Art
The Many Arms of Takashi Murakami’s Career
A retrospective at the MCA Chicago charts the many strands of Murakami's painting practice, from his early Nihonga style to recent Buddhist iconography.
Opinion
How to Address the Shortcomings of New York City’s Official Cultural Plan
The artists and activists who created "The People's Cultural Plan," a community-first alternative to New York City's official Cultural Plan, offer solutions to the latter's many problems and blindspots.
Film
An Artist Who Grew Up in Boyle Heights Navigates the Fight Over Gentrification
This exclusive new short documentary considers the less discussed and more personal perspective of what it’s like to be an artist from Boyle Heights.
Art
The Car as a Vehicle for Desire
The most alluring aspect of the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier is its suggestion of what photographs of cars absent of people can convey.
Announcement
Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents You Are Here NYC: Art, Information, and Mapping
The exhibition is curated by Katharine Harmon, author of You Are Here–NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City, with Jessie Braden, Director, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative, Pratt Institute.
Books
The Rise of Paleoart, and the Artist's Role in Our Visions of Dinosaurs
Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980 argues for the art history importance of dinosaur illustrations, as they shape our understanding of this extinct world through the visual culture of the present.
Art
Glimpses of the Future of Architecture at a Chicago Biennial
The Chicago Architecture Biennial, which opened this past weekend, looks to history for inspiration.