Art
Myth, Flesh, and Three Paintings by Charles Garabedian
There is a small exhibition in memory of Charles Garabedian (1923 - 2016) currently at Sidecar, the adjoining annex space of Betty Cuningham Gallery on the Lower East Side.
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A Claymation Moonscape Covered in Ruins
Animated by Meghan Tryon, psych-rock band Wand's new "Passage of the Dream" video fuses claymation with line drawings and paper cutouts in a densely detailed fantasy narrative.
In Brief
Watch This 'Ding Dong' Clock a Museum Timepiece
Enough is enough — when will museum visitors learn to NOT TOUCH THE ART??!
Art
A Flock of Rotary Phones Chirps and Purrs in a Brooklyn Basement
The phones are ringing off the hook in the basement of IDIO Gallery, and no one is answering them.
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In LA, Fear of Gentrification Greets New Nonprofit Art Space
LOS ANGELES — Art and gentrification have a long and complicated relationship.
In Brief
King Tut's Dagger Is Actually from Outer Space
King Tut lay underground in his tomb for a few thousand years, but a dagger he kept by his side has far-out origins in outer space.
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Seymour Chwast’s Graphic Battle Against War
A 5,000-year chronicle of human violence is the goal of illustrator Seymour Chwast's new book project, which follows his almost six-decades of antiwar art.
Comics
Reduced Expectations
It's summer.
Art
The Conflict Around Diversity at the American Alliance of Museums
This year's AAM (American Alliance of Museums) conference, organized under the theme “Power, Influence, and Responsibility,” made a significant effort to meaningfully engage with issues of diversity and the inclusion of historically underrepresented populations.
Art
The Pleasures and Risks of Ahistorical Curating
PARIS — In Carambolages, currently at the Grand Palais, we are plunged into the big, fuzzy, ahistorical world of anti-categories typical of the networked global economic order.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Syrian troops were accused of looting the ancient city of Palmyra after recapturing it from ISIS, Spain refused to extradite a suspect in the Knoedler forgery scheme, and artist Ciara Phillips paid homage to the razzle dazzle camouflage designs of WWI.
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Tax Law Too Lax? IRS Receives Results of Private Museum Investigation
Last November, Senate Finance Committee chairman Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) sent a letter to the founders of 11 private museums across the US to investigate whether the institutions operate in a way that benefits the public enough to warrant receiving tax-exempt status.