Art
Spirits and Hungry Ghosts
It was time for Donald to go to the temple.
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Roger Bissière, The Last "Primitive"
With the death of the French painter Roger Bissière in 1964, a whole chapter of Modernism, one that we could call the “Primitive Paradigm,” came to a close.
Performance
The Embodied Life Writing of Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Aynsley Vandenbroucke has been exploring the relation of literary formalism to the human body in a way few writers, if any, are doing.
Art
Painting Isn’t Dead! It’s Just Slow
Quicktime takes its cue from Raphael Rubinstein’s “Provisional Painting,” published in the May 2009 issue of Art in America. In the essay, Rubinstein discusses a handful of artists who seem to “turn away from ‘strong’ painting” in favor of works “that look casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished o
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At the 2017 Dallas Art Fair, Big Ambitions and the Big Mo
Mayor Mike Rawlings recently announced that the city’s annual Dallas Arts Week would become Dallas Arts Month, starting on April 1. Its centerpiece, the Dallas Art Fair, now in its ninth edition, has become a symbol of the local arts scene’s impressive growth and increasing momentum.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Albert Oehlen
The long-reigning bad boy of German painting has consistently poked and prodded at whatever preciousness we associate with the medium.
Art
Explore a Growing Archive of American Gardens with a New Smithsonian App
Smithsonian Gardens launched a free app to share and collect American gardening stories, from 19th-century Detroit potato patches to community greenspaces in vacant lots.
In Brief
Fascinating Figures from the Metropolitan Museum’s Collection Data
An insightful report by FiveThirtyEight crunches the numbers on the Met's permanent collection holdings.
Art
The Wende Museum Examines the Politics of Food During the Cold War
Dinner Party Politics: Food Culture in the Eastern Bloc, opening this Sunday, explores how gastronomic traditions in the former Soviet Union and socialist nations were linked to ideology.
News
For the First Time, Metropolitan Museum Will Display Indigenous Art in Its American Wing
With a major promised gift of 91 works of Native American art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will now include indigenous art in its galleries on American art.
Art
A Performance Featuring an Anxiety-Filled Superhero at MoMA PS1
On April 9, artist Hannah Black, musician Bonaventure, and designer Ebba Fransén Waldhör will immerse viewers in the exploits of a figure named Anxietina.
Announcement
SAIC Students Launch Product Line at Milan Design Week
The collection will be unveiled at Spazio Rossana Orlandi during Milan Design Week, April 4–9