Art
Tehching Hsieh's Art of Passing Time
The artist's exhibition for the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale shows how he has attempted to bring art into life.
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Opinion
An Artists’ Guide to Not Being Complicit with Gentrification
We write this in hopes that more artists will finally break with their sense of exceptionalism and consider the roles they play in the gentrification process.
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Required Reading
This week, Koch Brothers and arts funding, touring the National Museum of Taiwan, a monument commemorating the generosity of the Choctaw Nation to the Irish, urbanism and Apple's new HQ, the mysteries of "bog bodies" unveiled, and more.
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Weekend Words: Velvet
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
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The Startling Abstractions of Arpita Singh
For those who know only Singh’s figurative paintings, this exhibition of 33 abstract works will come as a surprise in the very best sense.
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Caravaggio’s Fascination with Death
The artist's last two paintings are as impetuous, violent, and racked with guilt as Caravaggio was himself.
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When Parisians Took to the Barricades
In 1848 and 1871, the working-class citizens of Paris rose up and took over sections of the city, governing themselves in what would briefly become a large-scale experiment in an alternative society.
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Minoru Onoda, Circle Master from Japan's Gutai Group
Onoda daydreamed about the power of his dots and circles to poke a defiant thumb in the eye of “the world we are now living in."
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At the Venice Biennale, Pinocchio Is a Trojan Horse for Capitalist Critique
In the Scottish Pavilion, Rachel Maclean’s film Spite Your Face lays bare how greed corrupts so deeply that even helpless souls are turned savage.
Books
Photographs Document Arctic Change on Our Frozen Seas
Pictures like Diane Tuft's and Stefan Hunstein's eventually may be all that remains to remind us of the Arctic’s terrible beauty.
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An Audio Tour Dredges Up the Dark Ecology of NYC's Newtown Creek
A new field guide takes listeners on a walk along one of the country's most polluted waterways, where unexpected nature mingles with relics of industry.
Opinion
New VR Arts Platform Launches with Abramović, Eliasson, Koons, and a Whole Lot of Hype
Acute Art aspires "to explore and enable the transition from art in the physical world into the new, disruptive realm of VR," something artists have been doing for years.