Art
Treasures from the Met Ascend to Its Roof in a Scramble of Art History
Adrián Villar Rojas has transformed the open-air space into a dystopian banquet hall where culture is the main meal, long-ago consumed.
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Protesters Honor Ana Mendieta at LA Opening of Carl Andre Retrospective
Artists and activists gathered at MOCA Geffen to protest what they consider Mendieta’s erasure from the canon and the disassociation of her death from Andre’s story.
Art
Surveying Landscapes for Clues to Political Violence
Two films made almost 50 years apart use silent shots of landscapes to examine the conditions that drove two young people to criminality.
Art
Why Marvel Fired an Artist for Inserting Religious and Political Messages into an X-Men Comic
Artist Ardian Syaf included religious references and an allusion to recent Indonesian political demonstrations in an X-Men comic.
Art
Romare Bearden’s Mythic Collages, Rooted in the American South
The characters of Romare Bearden's collages, on view now at DC Moore Gallery, form a kind of pantheon, a great mythological scheme particular only to the black American South.
Books
A Graphic Memoir About Learning to Cope with What's Left Behind
Kristen Radtke’s graphic memoir uses photos and the death of her uncle as touchstones to illustrate parallel forms of decay and loss.
Art
Honolulu’s New Biennial Makes the Case for Hawaiian Contemporary Art
Honolulu's first biennial, The Middle of Now | Here, is a challenge to the notion that Hawaii is “in the middle of nowhere.”
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: the co-founders of a Tehran gallery were charged with attempting to overthrow the Iranian government, demonstrators protested the opening of Carl Andre’s retrospective at LA MOCA, and a man stepped on a blue pigment piece by Yves Klein during a press conference in Nice.
Books
From Ceramic Sea Creatures to Bauhaus Blocks, a Compendium of Exquisite Chess Sets
A new book features detailed photos and short essays about an eclectic range of elaborate chess sets from across multiple centuries and continents.
Books
A Graphic Memoir About Growing Up with Modernist Playgrounds
Julia Jacquette's Playground of My Mind is a graphic memoir of growing up with the modernist playgrounds of Manhattan, and how their concrete geometries influenced her later art.
Film
Maurizio Cattelan’s Latest Prank Is a Documentary About His Life and Work
Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back makes an unconventional yet compelling case for the profundity of the artist's elaborate sculptural jokes.
Art
Miniature Dioramas That Contain the Chaos of the World
From a patchwork of shantytowns to retail spaces, Tracey Snelling's miniature worlds describe the disorder of life and offer a compelling argument that the way we inhabit space is subjective.