Art
Field Report on an Artist and Her Pigs
In her project This Little Piggy, Elaine Tin Nyo is forcing an engagement with the wages of survival against the desire for pleasure, and our unwillingness to tease them apart.
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Two Artists Make a Mess in the Name of Process
Husband-and-wife artist duo Rotem Tamir and Omri Zin created a pair of elaborate contraptions to help them laboriously make balloons and ink inside the gallery.
In Brief
From Biblical Condoms to Blue Tile Contact Lenses, Putting the Rijksmuseum Collection to Unusual Uses
The Rijksmuseum's annual Rijksstudio Award invites anyone to create new work inspired by objects from its collection, and now the public can vote on the 10 finalists.
Interview
“What Does It Mean to Be Black and Look at This?” A Scholar Reflects on the Dana Schutz Controversy
Christina Sharpe says the issue at the heart of the dispute over the Emmett Till painting is not representation so much as intimacy and our relationship to violence.
Comics
The Casual Disappointment of Bjarne Melgaard
The artist's new brand and derelict department store installation are full of tired, co-opted ideas.
Art
See Film and Video Art on the Big Screen at BAM
The eighth edition of Migrating Forms, running March 24–30, includes works by General Idea, Cauleen Smith, Jonathas de Andrade, Sondra Perry, and others.
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The Greatest Biennial of All
The Whitney Houston Biennial is back, showing the work of 167 women artists.
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The Global History of African Textiles at the Fowler Museum
The exhibition African Print Fashion Now!, opening this Saturday, chronicles the history of African textiles, beginning with their 19th-century origins in West and Central Africa.
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Mao, Lenin, Thatcher, and Other Leaders Haunt Art Basel Hong Kong
Adjacent installations by Pio Abad and Shen Shaomin at the fair offer cautionary tales on the perils of communism and the evils of neoliberalism.
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A Dada Exhibition Fetishizes the Movement’s Ephemera
The exhibition is shallow, portraying the movement through familiar pieces and presentations that provided but a façade of its "simultaneity of contradictions."
Announcement
BRIC Presents 'Public Access/Open Networks,' Featuring Over 20 Historic and Contemporary Artists
Public Access/Open Networks showcases the historical relationships between community-produced media and political action, documenting the potential for social change and creative reimagining through this technology.
Interview
A Moving Image Artist Finds Freedom After Abandoning the Film Industry
After her first feature screened at Sundance, Cauleen Smith lost patience with the film industry's conservatism and devoted herself to art; her work is currently in the Whitney Biennial and Migrating Forms at BAM.