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Opinion

In Defense of the World's Ugliest Color, "Opaque Couché"

And the title of "World's Ugliest Color" goes to: Pantone 448C!

Announcement

MICA's Studio Art MFA Exhibition Opens in Baltimore

Working in a broad range of painting, sculpture, textile, photography, performance, and video work, the exhibition features Lindsey Bailey, Jacqueline Bishop, Howard el-Yasin, Suzy Kopf, Kirk Daniel Palmer, Georgeann Schellenger, and Azucena Trejo Williams.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6Mjc5

Art

Corcoran Art School Lays Off Over Half Its Faculty, Sowing Discontent and Distrust

The Corcoran School of the Arts & Design’s class of 2016 had its graduation ceremony on May 14. The following week, more than half of the art school’s full-time faculty were told their contracts would not be renewed.

Comics

My Favorite Art Critic

They are always there.

In Brief

Artist Suing Damien Hirst Over Charm Bracelets Needs to Take a Chill Pill [UPDATED]

In a suit that shows people will sue over just about anything, a Canadian artist is accusing Damien Hirst of copyright infringement — because a series of his bracelets features similar pill-shaped charms as hers.

Art

Literary Paintings Inspired by a Fictional Poet

A freshman psych professor once described an experiment to my class wherein male turkeys were presented with realistic models of female turkeys, which the male turkeys promptly attempted to mate with.

News

Israeli Artist Wants His Historic Knesset Sculpture Removed in Protest

TEL AVIV-JAFFA — Israeli artist Dani Karavan, known for his site-specific sculptures in Israel and Europe, requested on Wednesday that the relief on the wall of the Knesset Plenum Hall that he completed in 1966 be taken down in light of the Israeli government’s conduct.

Art

Deconstructing African American Identity into Axioms, Photos, and Colors

LONDON — Two things are true: Martine Syms likes both purple and words. As with her website and her publishing imprint Dominica, Syms’s exhibition Fact & Trouble at the Institute of Contemporary Arts is awash in the color purple: Royal purple C-stands, royal purple television monitors, and royal pur

Art

Upgrading a Traditional Javanese Instrument to Run on an Algorithm

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — We are a technology-obsessed culture.

Art

What Should We Do with New York’s Most Neglected World’s Fair Relic?

What will become of the derelict New York State Pavilion, a rusted Space Age relic of the 1964 World's Fair?

In Brief

Ancient Roman Waxed Writing Tablets Unearthed in Central London

IOUs, a note to a brewer, and the earliest handwritten document known from Britain — these are among the 405, nearly 2,000-year-old Roman waxed writing tablets archaeologists have unearthed and deciphered over years of excavations at Bloomberg's forthcoming headquarters in London.

Interview

Reflecting on the Complicated and Painful History of Anti-LGBTQ Violence in the US

I'll never forget the day I wandered into Skylar Fein's "Remember the UpStairs Lounge" (2008) at the Prospect.1 biennial in New Orleans.