Performance
Making the Case for a More Inclusive Approach to Performance Art
Performatik17, the 17th Brussels Biennial of Performance Art, is either the dream of someone seeking an expanded field or the nightmare of someone craving rigid borders.
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Billionaire Opens Museum in a Reconstructed Baroque Palace in Potsdam
POTSDAM — Touted as the “youngest and noblest of all German private museums,” the Museum Barberini opened to the public on January 23 in an area lined with Prussian palaces and gardens on the banks of the old Alter Markt Square, a stone’s throw from some of the city’s
Film
A Documentary on Tony Conrad's Shape-Shifting Legacy
A new documentary about the experimental musician, filmmaker, and artist, details his many influential projects while illuminating countless others we know very little about — for now.
Film
A Stilted Cinematic Portrait of Cézanne and Zola's Lifelong Friendship
The new film Cézanne and I focuses on the extreme temperamental differences between the two great friends, but offers few other insights.
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The Whitney Biennial Reminds Us America Is Not Post-Race
A slow reading of Ajay Kurian’s work is influenced by a desire to view, parse, and converse with more work by artists of color, and is one of many strategies needed to challenge a dominant, incomplete idea of “American” art.
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Superheroes, Indie Comics, and Trump Caricatures at This Year’s MoCCA Fest
The 2017 edition of the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) and the Society of Illustrators festival takes place April 1 and 2 in Hell's Kitchen.
Film
Transhumanism and the Promise of the Bodiless Mind in the Original Ghost in the Shell
Rather than make the series feel dated, identity issues in the cyber age make the 1995 film seem extraordinarily prescient.
Art
A Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance in Maps, Manuscripts, and Art
Gather Out of Star-Dust at Yale University's Beinecke Library is a building-wide exhibition of over 300 rare artifacts from the Harlem Renaissance.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: artists were injured in clashes with Chinese security officials during the demolition of a studio complex in Beijing, a deputy director of the State Hermitage Museum was put under house arrest on suspicion of fraud, and Ai Weiwei revealed plans to install more than 100 fence s
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A Poetic Video Work on Native American Fancy Dancers Goes on View
Dara Friedman's video work Mother Drum, documenting her encounters with Native American Fancy dancers and drummers, goes on view at Kayne Griffin Corcoran in Los Angeles this Friday.
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Healers, Mixologists, Tattoo Artists, and More Fill a Vacant Queens Building for a Night
On March 25, an empty apartment building in Queens was filled with dazzling art installations and participatory performances.
Art
A Stroll Through a Forest of Ribbons That Simulates Synesthesia
Anne Patterson's installation Pathless Woods at the Ringling Museum of Art suggests a walk through the woods, despite having none of the literal characteristics of the outdoors.