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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.
News
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.
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.
News
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.