Performance
Six Strangers Searching for Their Voices
There is hardly any dialogue in Small Mouth Sounds, a play about six weekend retreaters who have taken vows of silence.
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Art
An Incredible Map Collection Gets Its First Physical Home
Since the 1990s, collector David Rumsey has digitized and made freely available his thousands of historical maps; his site has long been one of the best resources for cartography.
Art
Another Pro Football Team Adds an Art Collection to Its Playbook
MINNEAPOLIS — The history of arts patronage is a patriarchal affair, beginning with the word’s etymology.
Art
Seeing the Deterioration of Technology in Thomas Struth’s Photographs
BERLIN — Thomas Struth’s current exhibit at the Martin-Gropius-Bau is compact yet compelling.
In Brief
Finnish Government Refuses to Fund Guggenheim Helsinki
Political opposition in Finland could sabotage longstanding plans to build a Guggenheim outpost on the Helsinki waterfront.
News
Organizers Cancel Turkish Biennial Amid Fears of Government Crackdown
On Monday, the organizers of the Çanakkale Biennial canceled the exhibition's fifth edition, which was due to open on September 24.
Art
How Art Criticism Emerged from the Catalogues of the Paris Salons
Washington, DC — “Words could not express what an agreeable spectacle this was for me to see all at one time such a prodigious quantity of every kind of work,” wrote Jean Rou in his Mémoires inédits et opuscules.
Comics
What Can't Be Seen
How do we picture our childhoods?
Art
Surviving and Memorializing the AIDS Crisis
A public health crisis is one of these human occurrences that brings several contravening responses and feelings to the surface: fear, recrimination, massive research efforts, emotional appeals for safety and help, charitable sacrifice, anger, religious discrimination, political advocacy, and on.
Interview
"You Have to Get Past the Fear”: Joan Semmel on Painting Her Aging, Nude Body
Joan Semmel has created a distinctive body of work largely centered on painted images of her own body.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: "American Gothic" will leave the US for the first time ever, Tate was forced to reveal the value of its BP sponsorship, and a model of 1666 London was burned along the river Thames.
Art
Using Official Forms and Documents to Unpack the Migration Experience
When you walk into Spencer Brownstone gallery from off the street there’s no chance to mentally transition, unlike some galleries where there’s an elevator ride, or a long hallway, or the exhibition space is far from the front desk.