Performance
An Acrobat Embodies the Weightless Beauty Before a Fall
The Brooklyn Academy of Music presented French acrobat Yoann Bourgeois’s nouveau cirque Minuit for the first time in the United States.
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Film
An Anti-Cinematic Portrait of Jonas Mekas
Is a film that is almost devoid of its main component still a film?
Art
Ann Hamilton Pays Tribute to Philadelphia's Frayed Textile Industry
PHILADELPHIA — Started around 1907, Municipal Pier 9 was built as part of a comprehensive plan to upgrade the Delaware River as a shipping channel.
In Brief
Embattled Curator Jeffrey Uslip Leaves Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Today, CAMSTL announced that Chief Curator Jeffrey Uslip will be leaving for an as-yet-unnamed institution.
News
Anti-Columbus Day Activist Targets Guggenheim's Gold Toilet
A protester took it upon themselves to mark one of the most glaring symbols of contemporary art excess and decadence — Maurizio Cattelan's gold toilet at the Guggenheim Museum — with a "Decolonize This Place" sticker.
Announcement
New Exhibition on Pop Art Master Roy Lichtenstein Opens at the Skirball Cultural Center
Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A.explores how the artist made fine art accessible to the American public in ways that had not been achieved before.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTQ3NDA0LCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjbSI6NDY0Njc3LCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY2siOnt9LCJjciI6MTcyNDc5MiwiZG0iOjQsImZjIjo
Comics
Make the Internet Less Terrible Again
How will we endure this?
In Brief
Explore a Digital Reconstruction of a Roman Banker's Lavish Pompeii Home
The house of a Roman banker known as Lucius Caecilius Jucundus was among the many in Pompeii ruined when Vesuvius erupted, but you can now examine the grand estate as it once stood intact.
Art
A Public Art Forest of 4,000 Spindly Redwoods Takes Root
Spencer Finch's new public art project has 4,000 trees recreating part of a California redwood forest in Downtown Brooklyn.
Art
The Experimental Eclecticism of Ed Moses
His daring embrace of an anti-style approach opened up new potential for abstract painting.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Hollywood's drug war, commodifying Banksy, don't trust Facebook, Trump's fear of architecture critics, picturing the migrant crisis, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Deny
"Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends."