Art
How Trump Trades on Nostalgia for a Mythic White America
Racist sentiments often coexist with a mythologized past of a pure America inhabited only by white Christian people.
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A Victorian Theater Frozen in Time Crowdfunds Its Reopening
A 19th-century theater that's been disused for over 80 years is preparing to reopen in London.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus shares some of her influences, 85 artists pay homage to the album cover, a multimedia presentation on the history of naturalism takes place in a converted movie theater, and more.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: two men tried to steal a copy of a Banksy, a sculptural tribute to Trump was set on fire, and Alec Baldwin accused Mary Boone of selling him the wrong Ross Bleckner painting.
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Activists Protest Swizz Beatz's Art Fair in the Bronx
Last weekend, the rapper and record producer Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean, along with Bacardi — for which he's reportedly the new “global chief of culture” — staged an art fair in the Bronx.
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SVA Continuing Education Fall 2016 Information Sessions
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In Brief
Newly Discovered Ancient Mosaic of Chariot Race Is Most Complete of Its Kind
Archaeologists with Cyprus's Department of Antiquities recently came across a rare, sweeping mosaic floor that depicts the ancient sport of chariot racing held in a Roman hippodrome.
Opinion
Marina Abramović Writes Disparagingly About Aboriginal Australians #TheRacistIsPresent
Where to begin with such a passage? Do we criticize the comparison of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia with dinosaurs? The callous description of a community that doesn't fit the "Western" beauty aesthetic?
Interview
A Chronicler of Experimental Music Releases His Own
PARIS — While in New York some years ago, I virtually met Laurent Fairon, a French blogger and record collector based in Paris, when he was documenting and archiving for the web the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine in partnership with UbuWeb.
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The Sculptural, Musical Paintings of Mary Heilmann
LONDON — When I first walked into the Whitechapel Gallery, I thought I was looking at a Barnett Newman zip painting on the far wall.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, visit a resurrection of the beloved Troll Museum, see contemporary dance on the beach, or learn about the tradition of double dutch. And don't forget to join us tomorrow night at Housing Works for our second time bringing Hyperallergic off the screen and onto the stage.
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Build the Most Disruptive Startup Ever in a Dystopian Business Simulator
In "The Founder," a "dystopian startup simulator," you must disrupt markets, innovate nonstop, maybe even go beyond the Earth in wildly expensive rockets.