In Brief
Katy Perry Serves Up Bland Performance Art Prank at the Whitney Museum
The pop superstar’s half-baked viral stunt turned out flatter than a botched soufflé.
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Art
Mourning eBay’s Days as the Internet’s Kitschiest, Most Surreal Mall
The passing of the old eBay is the last nail in the cyberflâneur’s coffin.
Books
The Graphic Persuasiveness of 20th-Century Communist Posters
The first major survey of communist poster art considers the visual legacy of propaganda graphic design in nations around the world.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Gagosian agreed to pay a $4.28-million tax settlement, an arrest warrant was issued for Russian dissident artist Oleg Vorotnikov, and John Singer Sargent’s "Gassed" travelled to New York for the first time.
Art
Tracing the Lasting Influence of Black Power
The Schomburg Center examines the importance of the political and social movement, from its poetry and music to its inspiring of marginalized groups around the world.
Art
What Did Precolonial Manhattan Sound Like?
An immersive audio experience transports listeners four centuries into the past, when New York was undeveloped and ecologically diverse.
Art
Crowdsourcing Home Videos from Detroit in 1967, the Year of an Uprising
The Detroit Institute of Arts' year-long project builds a crowd-sourced archive of everyday life during a year when the city was embroiled in a dramatic conflict.
Art
Jusepe de Ribera’s Catholic Perversity
An exhibition of drawings by the Counter-Reformation artist showcases his terrific bent towards horror.
Interview
“In Mexico, Time Is Not Money”: A Residency Pushes Artists to Confront Difference and Colonialism
Arquetopia, which has locations in Puebla, Oaxaca, and, soon, the Peruvian city of Cusco, encourages resident artists to ask tough questions about colonialism, exoticism, and ethics.
News
Millions of Objects at 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized for Online Database
They are expecting to digitize seven million images by 2020.
Jack Shainman Gallery
Paintings that Revel in the Wonder of Our Domestic Spaces
Becky Suss's paintings at Jack Shainman Gallery boldly usher the quiet comforts of home into the white-walled space.
Art
A Conceptual Artist Pays Homage to Surrealist Claude Cahun’s Performance of Identity
A Gillian Wearing exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery puts her work in dialogue with her largely forgotten Surrealist inspiration.