Art
Pesto the Penguin Waddles Into the Art History Canon
The bumbling penguin has captured the hearts of millions on the internet and spawned a wealth of fan art and illustrations.
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Original Art Stimulates the Brain More Than Reproductions, Study Finds
Five artworks induced stronger positive responses in 20 participants in the Netherlands than museum shop posters of the same works.
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City Project to “Beautify” New York’s Chinatown Draws Criticism From Community
“Has anyone asked for pretty art on the police barricades?” Amy Chin, a board member of the nonprofit Think!Chinatown, told Hyperallergic.
Books
Five Poems for Vincent
What started as a catalog essay about van Gogh’s little-known passion for poetry became a suite of poems for the Dutch painter.
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Divya Mehra Makes the Machinery of History Visible
The artist’s works force theatrical encounters with metaphors for colonization or display the same violence actualized against discrete bodies.
Comics
Yoko Ono’s Quiet Destructions
Music of the Mind at Tate Modern was a memory bank of seven decades of the avant-garde artist’s career.
Books
Two Books That’ll Make You Feel Bad for AI
A small press is publishing innovative narrative works that travel across genres, including autotheory, criticism, experimental poetry, and documentary.
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A View From the Easel
“The longer I paint, the more I realize what I don’t know or cannot do. Simply exploring the material could keep a person busy forever.”
Art
15 NYC Art Shows to See in October
Start off the month with thoughtful shows by a range of artists, from established names like Nan Goldin to newcomers like Rachel Martin and trailblazers like Elizabeth Catlett.
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Inconspicuous Church Painting Turns Out to Be by Botticelli’s Studio
The work was long believed to be a more recent replica of a 16th-century work by the Renaissance master.
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Paris Museum Apologizes for Contentious Tibetan Artifact Labels
The Musée du Quai Branly promised to rectify its labels and website language that trades “Tibet” for “Xizang” — a term propagated by the Chinese government.
Art
The Elementary School That Welcomed Keith Haring
To My Friends at Horn is a reminder that artists do not exist in a vacuum and context illuminates the impact of the artist and activist.