Interview
"It's All Fear Circulating": Interpreting a Towering Artwork's Removal in Hong Kong
HONG KONG — A nine-and-a-half-minute video created a stir here when it opened on the giant LED façade of the International Commerce Centre tower.
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Art
Tehran Diary: The Lives Projected onto Public and Private Spaces
TEHRAN — Traveling from the center to the north of Tehran reveals the city’s multiple elevations: topographical, architectural, and economic.
Art
A Touch of Autobiography in Cindy Sherman’s New Classic Hollywood Portraits
The beauty of walking into a Cindy Sherman exhibition is that there is always a new group of women there waiting for you on the wall, asking you to understand and explore their lives.
Comics
Some Very Unmotivational Posters
There will always be someone better than you.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Getty's recorded art history, Muhammad Ali's radical history, Michelle Obama's commencement speech, Morley Safer as artist, venture philanthropists, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Monster
"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Catherine Texier’s ‘Russian Lessons’
It’s so hard to read a friend’s book without prejudice.
Art
A Truly Great Artist
At once compassionate and angry, empathetic and satirical, tender and tough, Nicole Eisenman is a storyteller, portraitist, social chronicler, allegorist, fantasist, utopian dreamer and history painter, to name just a handful of her many artistic identities.
Art
Something New Under the Sun
Richard Van Buren studied ceramics at Mexico City College. Later, he moved to San Francisco, where he studied at San Francisco State (1961–64).
Art
Repairing the Damage of Haste: The Still Point and Stir of William Bailey
Minutes before seeing a collection of William Bailey's meditative still-lifes and figure paintings, I heard, yet again, a series of small-minded and reckless comments by Donald Trump.
Music
Fatima al Qadiri's Poetry of Terror and Protest
Fatima Al Qadiri has just released her second full-length album, Brute. A concept album, it is, according to Al Qadiri, a protest album in the lineage of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”
Art
In Hannelore Baron’s Art, a Voice of Defiant Hope and Survival
Can art born of unspeakable horrors express something other than the soul-scarring pain and trauma that forever mark its creator?