Art
A Gift to Be Simple: John McLaughlin's Paintings Pose Fundamental Questions
The beautiful large-scale retrospective of this major but often forgotten artist’s work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is a truly revelatory exhibition.
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Bill Scott’s Bittersweet Fictions
Bill Scott acknowledges that the Garden of Eden is a fiction, and yet he is willing to paint his versions of that place, not as a way to make that garden great again, but to insist that pleasure is a crucial ideal for survival.
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Another Hidden Chapter of ’70s Abstraction
The nine artists in 1970’s: 9 Women and Abstraction infuse their art with an unexpected warmth, humanity, and quirkiness that feel all the more invigorating when compared with the cerebral objectification prized by their male Minimalist counterparts.
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Reconstructing the Tattered History of a Fictional 19th-Century Family
Titus Kaphar's The Vesper Project is a complex, multimedia project that dissolves the boundary between reality and fiction.
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Toy-sized Sculptures that Feel Like Daydreams
The sculptures on view in White Column's project room feel like the results of a lot of daydreaming by Joe Howe, who is now 87.
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Tune into Homegrown Radio Stations from Around the World
The new website Radio Garden allows you to click through radio stations as they stream in real time, from hundreds of cities in the world.
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A Painter Who Captured London's 1980s Reggae Scene
The British painter Denzil Forrester, who is currently showing at White Columns, talks about how he made art and was a fly on the wall at reggae and dub music venues.
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Themes of Return, Exile, and the Sea Trickle Through a Palestinian Art Festival
Producing a multi-city, multi-venue, multimedia contemporary art event is a major undertaking anywhere, but doing so in the environment of Palestine today is fairly miraculous.
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My Life as a Mattress
Some things are perfect.
Performance
A Scintillating Opera Is the Met's First by a Female Composer in 113 Years
L’Amour de Loin, by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, receives a dazzling production that sets the self-aware tale of unrequited love on a flickering sea of LED lights.
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Why Are There Dead Birds on Victorian Christmas Cards?
One of the more curious recurring images on 19th-century Christmas cards is the dead bird, which may symbolize mortality or something more ritualistic.
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A Modernist Houston Post Office Is Reborn as a Colossal Event Venue
With the Day for Night festival, the Barbara Jordan Post Office invites visitors to reconsider what the colossal concrete building could be for Houston.