Art
Provocative Nat Turner-Inspired Portraits Fuel Debate After Their Removal
Following an employee complaint, Stephen Towns removed his paintings from his solo show at Rosenberg Gallery. The decision has since inspired some much-needed dialogue.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Miami museums braced for Hurricane Irma, Dakota elders decided to bury the wooden remnants of Sam Durant's controversial "Scaffold" sculpture, and JR unveiled a monumental new work at the Mexico–US border.
In Brief
Japanese Company Creates Robot Priest to Administer Your Last Rites
Plastics manufacturer Nissei Eco introduced Pepper last month, a robe-donning robot trained to recite prayers and scripture while tapping a little drum.
Announcement
Liquitex Invites Artists to Take the Cadmium-Free Challenge
Liquitex cadmium-free acrylic paints give you the same performance, lightfastness and vibrancy as existing cadmium paints - they’re just safer for you.
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18th-Century Nautical Charts Show Radical Coral Reef Loss in Florida
Researchers compared 18th-century nautical charts to contemporary ocean data, revealing a dramatic loss of Florida's coral reefs.
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Art Provocateurs Hang “Ku Klux Klowns” in Virginia’s Capital [UPDATED]
The anonymous art collective Indecline hung eight clowns dressed in KKK robes from a tree in Richmond, Virginia.
Film
Can a Tiny Tuscan Town Keep Its "Poor Theater" Alive?
In the documentary Spettacolo, the people of Monticchiello see art as a tool to promote populism.
Art
Found Object Sculptures that Spell Out an Urgent Environmental Message
At MASS MoCA, sculptures by Lonnie Holley and Dawn DeDeaux reflect the environmental and political state of the earth today.
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BRIC Presents Brooklyn Photographs, a Group Exhibition Tracing Change and Diversity in the Borough
Work of eleven photographers captures life and traditions in various Brooklyn neighborhoods from the 1960s to the present.
Art
In London's Reopened Garden Museum, Horticulture History Is Told Among Tombs
The Garden Museum in London has reopened, showcase a recreation of a 17th-century curiosity cabinet, horticultural art, and the tombs of the deconsecrated church in which it's located.
Art
The Portraiture of Paul Cézanne
Portraits by Cézanne at the Musée d’Orsay includes 60 psychologically loaded canvases from all periods of the artist’s career.
Comics
Sometimes a Mop Bucket Is Just a Mop Bucket
And sometimes it's a readymade sculpture waiting to be "activated."