Art
The Use and Abuse of Paint: ‘Fast Forward’ at the Whitney
The museum should be commended for shining a light on painting, but the show feels like a missed opportunity.
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Jenny Holzer’s Blowtorch in the Darkness
When going too far is barely enough.
News
Tania Bruguera Pulls Work from Show at Bronx Museum, Claiming It’s Complicit in Cuban Censorship
The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana has declined to send artworks to the Bronx Museum as planned, and Tania Bruguera says it "has neglected to tell the whole story."
Art
From Surrealist Sketches to Mythic Visions, Favorites from the Master Drawings Fair
At Master Drawings, art dealers spread their net a bit wider to exhibit rare drawings, watercolors, and oil sketches from the 14th to 20th centuries.
Art
The Beekeeper Who Craved a World Without Right Angles
A man obsessed with hexagons tried to remake the visual world around him.
Announcement
DLECTRICITY Art and Light Festival’s Call for Entries Is Now Open
DLECTRICITY is Detroit's festival of art + light that showcases site-specific installations by established and emerging artists from the US and around the world.
Books
Richard Sandler’s Startling Photographs of Pre-9/11 New York
From 1977 to 2001, Richard Sandler photographed startling juxtapositions between the grit and glamour of New York City and Boston.
Announcement
Vermont College of Fine Arts Announces Teach Scholarship for MAT in Art & Design Education Program
All MAT students enrolling for summer 2017 will receive a $4,000 scholarship to support their commitment to serving K-12 students across the country, and their commitment to leveraging the arts to transform the world.
Art
Caribbean Artists Mine Their Immigrant Identities
This show arrives at a tender time in the country’s history, when cultural and ancestral histories feel at risk of erasure or condemnation.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: South Korea’s culture minister was arrested for allegedly drafting an artists' blacklist, the Museum of Modern Art discarded a Pat Lasch sculpture, and the National Museum of American History pulled a book about President Trump from its gift shop after it was found to contain
Performance
Intimate Theater Staged in the Bathtubs of Strangers
Since 2015, actor and activist Siobhan O’Loughlin has staged "Broken Bone Bathtub" around the world in the intimate space of a private bathroom.
Art
An Interactive Map of New York's Earliest Skyscrapers
The Skyscraper Museum's "Ten & Taller: 1874-1900" exhibition maps the first Manhattan buildings to soar beyond 10 stories.