Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2016
The first painting I saw in 2016 was “Cockman Always Rises Orange” (2015): we can’t say we weren’t warned.
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15 Artists, Shows, and Works Censored in 2016
Here's a look at some of this year’s acts of art censorship.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Around the World
Our picks for the best art shows in the world this year.
Comics
Use Your Heat to Make Light
Done with that.
Art
Tracking the 19th-Century Explorer Who Scaled Java's Volcanoes
An exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture uses the example of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, who between 1836 and 1848 climbed more than 40 of Java's volcanoes, to question man's relationship to the landscape.
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Seeking Solutions to My First-World Problems at Standing Rock
Feeling defeated by 2016, I went to Standing Rock seeking a post-Trump formula for resistance. What I found was far messier than what I expected, but no less practical.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Yoshitomo Nara was sued by a cosmetics company he claims copied his work, a Henry Moore sculpture was installed at Columbia University despite students deeming it a "monstrosity," and India began construction on the world's tallest statue.
Books
Jet-Age Dreams in the Vintage Posters of Pan Am Airlines
Pan Am: History, Design & Identity, a new book by Matthias C. Hühne, retraces the distinct design history of the defunct Pan Am airlines.
Art
An Iranian-American Artist's Unfinished Abstractions
“Caress my darkness, liminal lover” is the title of three paintings by Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi. Each depicts a brimstone hellscape speckled with cypress trees, plumages of seafoam-colored cabbage, and a single imperial gateway arch. The three paintings almost link up to form a triptych, but they fall just short of
Music
The Thinly Veiled Queerness of George Michael's Love Songs
His songs still stand as some of the most evocative descriptions of queer desire to achieve broad commercial success.
Books
A Graphic Novel Reimagines 'Romeo and Juliet' in 1980s Brooklyn
Combining a deep examination of Shakespeare’s play with memories of Wimberly’s own teen years, Prince of Cats is electric.
Art
Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Across the United States
Here's a small taste of what this vast country had to offer in art this year.