In Brief
Magnus, the much-praised mobile app that branded itself as the "Shazam for art," is now off the market, following news that it operated using information grabbed from other art world databases as well as copyright claims by three German galleries.
Art
The best word I can use to describe the feeling conveyed by John Akomfrah’s films at Lisson Gallery is fey.
News
On this week’s art crime blotter: Norwegian youths destroyed a stone-age engraving of a skier, Mary Boone sued an art adviser over allegedly ill-gotten KAWS works, and a Salvador Dalí sculpture was vandalized in Quebec City.
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Over 200 arts professionals and scientists have signed an open letter in The Times calling for an end to BP's new, five-year sponsorship deals with four major cultural institutions in the UK.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, a group show only visible through peepholes opens, the Hammer Museum screens Margaret Honda's abstract color films, a limited edition box of Surrealist-inspired art goes on view for sale, and more.
Art
Returning after a 20 year break, the Triennale International Exhibition, which is centered at the Triennale Museum in Milan, has a new media update.
Art
"Moholy-Nagy: Optical Sound,” a recent three-part concert curated by artist Luke DuBois and musician Zach Layton at the Guggenheim Museum, highlighted both the history and the modern trajectory of optically inspired sound, especially as put forth by visual artist László Moholy-Nagy.
Art
In New York City's constantly changing urban landscape, artist studios can be ephemeral.
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Long before cardboard VR viewers, there were paper peepshows: pocket-sized stage sets with illustrated backdrops and paper cut-out scenes, which expand like accordion books to create an illusion of depth when you peer through eyeholes.
Art
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Looking lost and helpless, a Native couple in "Discoverers and Civilizers Led to the Source of the Mississippi" are surrounded.
Art
This week, BAM kicks off a retrospective of Robert Frank's films, octogenarian artist Lorraine O'Grady talks openly about aging at the New Museum, a new space-inspired cantata — which comes with virtual reality — touches down in Prospect Park, and more.
Art
The road that led to last week’s Brooklyn Community Forum on Anti-Gentrification and Displacement at the Brooklyn Museum was long and winding, but its starting point is very clear.