Art
At Spring Masters, a Glimpse of Precious Artworks Before They Change Hands
The Spring Masters fair preview welcomed its visitors with vases full of fresh magnolias, live classical music, and platters of champagne.
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Art
A Psychedelic Garden Blooms with CGI Cyborgs
Just when it seemed like the psychedelic music video trend was getting old, Japanese artist Kota Yamaji’s video for tilt-six’s track "あなくろノイズ" has come along to melt your head.
Art
Tracing the Contours of Power at the Marrakech Biennale
MARRAKESH — In the vaults adjacent to the city's Koutoubia Mosque, a video by the Copenhagen-based artists' group Superflex tells the story of migrants and refugees eager to reach Europe.
Art
Focusing on Photo Portraits at New York’s Contemporary African Art Fair
Seventeen galleries from all over the world have convened to exhibit the work of pan-African artists and artists of the African diaspora.
Art
A Monthlong Harlem Art Fair Pops Up in Public Spaces
The Flux Art Fair, which is only in its second year, has done something boldly innovative with the art fair format: created a scheme of public works placed throughout Harlem’s parks and boulevards.
Art
NADA New York Gets Nasty
NADA New York, the New Art Dealers Alliance's (NADA) hometown art fair, has a reputation for showing a certain type of clinical, vaguely cynical, and aggressively cool contemporary art.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: MoMA offered buyouts to members of staff, Rosemarie Trockel's $34 million art collection was destroyed by a fire at her home, and the Bodleian Libraries acquired a map of Middle Earth annotated by JRR Tolkien.
Performance
A 1944 Dalí Backdrop Gets Its Own Surreal Circus
The archives of the Metropolitan Opera can seem like some kind of pharaonic tomb, packed as they are with theatrical treasures.
News
You’re Hired! Trump Taps Steven Mnuchin, Son of Art Dealer, as Finance Chief
Yesterday, Donald Trump named his campaign finance chief: Steven Mnuchin, hedge-fund executive, controversial film financier, and son of art dealer Robert Mnuchin, whose Upper East Side gallery is currently showing a David Hammons retrospective.
Hyperallergic
Welcome Wendy Xu, Hyperallergic's New Poetry Editor, as Joe Pan Shifts to Fiction
Some exciting news on the literary front at Hyperallergic! Starting this July, the extraordinary Wendy Xu will be replacing me as poetry editor, while I take over the newly minted post of fiction editor here at the magazine.
Comics
The Moral High Ground
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Art
Refocusing on Marisol’s Ingenuity as a Sculptor and Draughtswoman
The generous obituaries written about Marisol Escobar in the last few days have reminded us of the important figure that she was.