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Ancient Oracle to Apollo Discovered Near the Acropolis
"Come to me, O Paean, and bring with you the true oracle," reads the inscriptions in an oracle well used to communicate with the Olympian god Apollo that was recently discovered in Athens.
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Art
Letting Go of the Distinction Between Figuration and Abstraction
LOS ANGELES — A Shape That Stands Up at Art + Practice (A+P) gallery, in partnership with the Hammer Museum, claims to “[examine] the space between figuration and abstraction” — a great starting point unless you have the sneaking suspicion that this space disappeared decades ago.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a Chinese artist was reprimanded for his "sexual calligraphy" videos, a $20-million trove of stolen art was seized in Istanbul, and a relic containing a drop of Pope John Paul II's blood was stolen from Cologne Cathedral.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, Chinatown's Peephole Cinema reopens, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive hosts a performance as part of the second Queer Biennial, Human Resources presents a video installation based on The Shining, and more.
Announcement
Two Weeks, Two Art World Centers: Earn an Art and Business Executive Certificate in Bilbao and New York
The NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Deusto Business School (University of Deusto, Spain), and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao jointly present the International Leadership Program in Visual Arts Management (ILPVAM), a unique executive certificate program for visual ar
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Protesters Demand “Where Is Ana Mendieta?” in Tate Modern Expansion
LONDON — Posters all around London advertising Tate Modern’s new building proudly proclaim: “Art Changes. We Change.”
Art
Revisiting the Anti-Establishment Posturing of an Established Artist
Tucked into the corner of Marlborough Chelsea’s huge space sits Viewing Room, an exhibition of Stephen Kaltenbach’s work that expresses, in a variety of media, a very personal sort of art world pique.
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Locals Deem Main Street Sculpture of Nude Yogi “a Sickening Thing"
"There's nothing sacred anymore," said Peg Lowry, a resident of Ames, Iowa, in response to a new public sculpture on Main Street.
Books
The Artists and Activists Who’ve Aimed at the Roots of Injustice
A few years ago I was covering a panel discussion for Hyperallergic featuring members of Gran Fury, an ACT UP affinity group focused primarily on producing what group members themselves called “propaganda” against a government hellbent on isolating, vilifying, and smugly looking on as tens of thousa
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, Vito Acconci opens at MoMA PS1 (and any serious art-lover will want to see it), El Museo del Sures will document the stories of South Williamsburg, Ida Applebroog talks about her childhood, and much much more.
Art
A Permanent Village of Musical Architecture in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Towering pecans and live oaks shade a far corner of New Orlean's Bywater neighborhood which will soon be the permanent home of the Music Box Village, an installation of musical architecture organized by the New Orleans Airlift nonprofit.
Art
The Dicks We Grope to Get Ahead
A rock-climbing wall is covered with penises at the New Museum.