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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: police took down a noose art installation, the leader of a Chinese antiquities looting ring was sentenced to death, and someone stole a public sculpture of a porcupine.
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What’s the Value of Recreating the Palmyra Arch with Digital Technology?
Seven months after ISIS destroyed Palmyra’s 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph, the structure has risen once more — this time 2,800 miles away from the ancient city, in London’s bustling Trafalgar Square.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, Jim Shaw and others reveal the hidden histories of Los Angeles, Giant Robot brings its unique blend of Asian pop culture and art to the Vincent Price Art Museum, CalArts MFA candidates open up their studios, and more.
Art
Remembering Malick Sidibé, the Photographer Who Captured Modern Malian Life
The Malian photographer Malick Sidibé died on Friday in Bamako, Mali.
Art
Climbing into a Mortuary Drawer to Smell the Scents of JFK’s Last Moments
In Famous Deaths, you experience the smells and sounds of the last four minutes of someone's life, all while closed inside a metal mortuary drawer.
In Brief
Street Artist Plants Secret Rooms in Milan’s Abandoned Manholes
Throughout the Lodi district of Milan, Italy, artist Biancoshock has transformed abandoned manholes into miniature subterranean rooms.
Art
Stone and Steel Sculptures Tap into a Museum’s Industrial Roots
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Nothing is a singular object here; everything is part of this place and its history.
Art
From a Shipping Container in Brooklyn, a New Arts Org Champions Caribbean Culture
CaribBEING is a young hybrid arts organization working to play several roles.
Art
Paintings of Nudes and Flowers, Dripping with Color and Quirk
Pastels, floral still lifes, and portraits of babies are about as safe and traditional as visual motifs come — they evoke a cutesy Hallmark aesthetic.
Art
How a Bodega Became a Sprawling Site for Collage
CHICAGO — In the second act of Arthur Miller’s 1949 Death of a Salesman, a distressed Willy Loman laments, “Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.”
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, a lecture details the history of fan painting, a panel ponders colonialism's influence on indigenous choreography, Barkley Hendricks's solo show heads into its last days, and more.
Film
Filming a Memorial Ride to the Massacre at Wounded Knee
The US Cavalry massacred over 300 unarmed men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota in 1890, and those who didn't die from the bullets were left to freeze in the bitter December cold.