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.
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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.
Books
A Photographer Documents How Spirit Mediums in Myanmar and Thailand Blur Gender
Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Thailand and Burma features photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen of the gender variance of participants in spirit cults.
News
In Light of Downsizing, Texas Arts Library Faces Uncertain Future
The Fine Arts Library at the University of Texas, Austin, was significantly downsized over the summer and may shrink further as more materials are relocated to off-campus storage.
Books
How the Animal Menagerie of Versailles Changed 17th-Century Art
1668: The Year of the Animal in France by Peter Sahlins delves into the radical influence of Louis XIV's menagerie at Versailles on the art of animals.
Art
A Year of Magical Figurative Art
2017 was a strikingly strong year for all kinds of figurative representation and portraiture: contemporary, midcentury, imagined, caricatured, oil-painted, and drawn.