News
What Does the Next Wave of Development Mean for Bushwick Artists?
As the neighborhood's commercial real estate turns over to lure tech companies, many artists will have to look further east for affordable studio space.
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Art
Two Thousand Years of Inuit Art Goes on Display at the Frieze Masters Art Fair
Dozens of objects make up Donald Ellis Gallery's exhibition of art by the indigenous people of North America's arctic region.
News
Guggenheim Accused of Supporting Animal Cruelty in New Exhibition
A petition is calling for the removal of three works, including an installation of live lizards and insects and a video of a performance involving pit bulls running on treadmills, from the forthcoming Art and China After 1989.
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.
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.
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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.