Art
An Indian Modernist’s Abstractions of Famine and War
In Rabin Mondal’s most iconic paintings, amphibious characters resembling frogs stare out of the canvas.
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An Artist Channels His Anxiety About Painting into Painting
“So, the best approach [to wooing galleries] is, as you suggested, crawling on your hands and knees,” writes renowned art-world insider Howard Moseley, M.D.
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A Supper Club Invites Artists of Color to Discuss Sanctuary and Safety
On Friday, August 5, I attended a dinner held at the 8th Floor, an exhibition and event space founded by philanthropists Shelley and Donald Rubin and artistic directed by Sara Reisman.
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5Pointz Owner Reneges on Promise to Use Union Labor, Sparking Protest
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Long Island City yesterday to protest the almost complete absence of unionized workers at the 5Pointz redevelopment site — despite a promise by the project’s developer that he would only employ union workers for the job.
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“I Am an Invented Character”: A Performance Artist on Living in His Utopia
“I am back in New York. My lungs need poison air,” began Papo Colo in one of his recent emails to me.
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The Dying Typographic Art of Cutting Letters into Steel
In a smoky atelier in Torino, Italy, Giuseppe Branchino works as one of the world’s last punch cutters.
Books
A Graphic Novel Chronicles Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Years
Woody Guthrie was responding to the hardships of the Great Depression, but he may as well have been singing about now.
Art
Exhuming Edinburgh's Hidden Stories
EDINBURGH — “Scotland is a canny nation when it comes to remembering and forgetting,” wrote the poet Jackie Kay.
Art
The Colonial Histories of Colors and Patterns
SAN FRANCISCO — Stephanie Syjuco’s exhibition Neutral Calibration Studies (Ornament + Crime) at Catharine Clark Gallery is physically dominated by an installation of the same name.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week's events include a tour of the murals of Historic Filipinotown, an updated version of a 1970s game show, an anti-gentrification film screening, and more.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a cycling-themed cow statue goes missing, one art dealer sues another over a Jeff Koons sculpture, and a former guard takes the Metropolitan Museum to court.
Art
Play at Doing Nothing with Trump, Palin, and Other “Climate Inaction Figures"
"Global warming my gluteus maximus," wrote former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in an infamous 2013 Facebook post, in which she argued that climate change wasn't real because it had snowed in her home state in May.