Art
Portraits of Dead Icons Laser-Etched on Wonder Bread
Who is famous enough to be memorialized on a piece of toast?
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Art
Photographing the Acceleration of Modernity Through a Privileged Lens
PITTSBURGH — The work of Jacques Henri Lartigue melds today’s concepts of the autobiographical with street, fine art, action, and fashion photography.
News
Aerial Photos of Palmyra Show Extent of Damage Done by ISIS
Working with the Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM), a team of digital surveyors have shared what it describes as some of the first images and videos to emerge from Palmyra since the ousting of ISIS in late March.
Art
Tour Green-Wood Cemetery's Forgotten Artist Graves with Hyperallergic's Allison Meier
Hyperallergic invites you to step into a museum of the dead with an afternoon tour at Green-Wood Cemetery led by Hyperallergic staff writer (and resident cemetery aficionado) Allison Meier.
News
Internal Documents Show How BP Oiled the Wheels at UK Museums
After sharing a handful of emails detailing suspicious correspondence between British museums and their sponsor BP, the Art Not Oil Coalition has released the full set of documents it obtained, accompanied by a 40-page report describing the potentially unethical partnerships.
Books
“The Ephemeral Moment of Exchange” in Barbara Bloom’s Wrapping Papers
Bloom’s papers mine the histories of gift rituals, interrogate the meaning objects are endowed with as gifts, and place value on an object that is meant to be used once and then discarded.
Film
A Psychological Portrait of Eva Hesse
Telling the story of Eva Hesse's life and work presents one major challenge: as a narrative arc, it is necessarily truncated.
Art
A Show About Delacroix’s Influence Is Sorely Missing His Work
LONDON — Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art suffers from too few of Delacroix’s works and far too much of the “modern art.”
Art
New Portal Art Fair Fails to Make the Most of a Lower Manhattan Landmark
Most tourists who wander into the rotunda of Federal Hall on Wall Street likely won't be there for this week's Portal Art Fair, but the three floors of mixed-media art may cause them to linger longer in the 19th-century space.
Interview
A Painter on the Entangled Relationship Between Figure and Frame
"I’m trying to make explicit the questions I ask myself: Can the figure bossily occupy the restraining space of the canvas?"
Art
Holograms, Robots, and 3D-Printed Masks at a New Art Center in Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Highlighting six HCMC-based contemporary artists and featuring several large works all incorporating new media, this exhibit would feel at home in any global arts city, from NYC to Beijing.