Art
Whitewashed Portrait Mural of Ed Ruscha Will Be Reborn, Older and Wiser
LOS ANGELES — No matter where he stands, Kent Twitchell looks to be in scale with the environment.
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Art
Your Arts-Centric Guide to the 2016 Presidential Primaries
As New Yorkers head to the polls tomorrow for the 2016 presidential primaries — and many more states follow suit in the coming weeks and months — it's important to keep in mind each candidate's record on culture.
Film
A Day in the Life of the ‘New York Times’ Obituary Writers
The New York Times is one of the few publications with full-time obituary writers on staff, who each morning tackle a new life suddenly at its end, summing up in a few hundred words how this one person changed our world and why we should care.
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Activists Strap Artist-Made Pollution Masks on London's Statues
From Buckingham Palace's white marble Queen Victoria to the famous aluminum Eros in Piccadilly Circus, high-profile statues of historical and mythical figures across London have become central participants in an air pollution protest.
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Art
At Bernie Sanders’s Official Art Show, the Candidate Meets His Muppet Avatar
On Saturday night, Bernie Sanders visited an art gallery in the East Village.
Film
A Documentary Tribute to Chris Burden's Extreme Oeuvre
Perhaps most surprising about the new film Burden, directed by Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey and screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, is its depiction of artist Chris Burden’s dramatic transformation from a rabble-rousing student in the 1970s to a mild-mannered landowner in 2014.
Art
An Artist Duo’s Shocking Stop-Motion Animations and Hypnotic Installations
PERTH — The exhibition, a collaboration between Hans Berg and artist Nathalie Djurberg, has been titled Secret Garden, and naturally, given all of its enchantment and ambience, immediate associations arise to Alice and the gardens of Wonderland. But there’s a lot more going on here.
Art
Beyond Drips: Investigating Jackson Pollock’s Many Artistic Phases
"Come over here to the drips," a visitor at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) advised friends.
Comics
What I Think About When I Look at Art Magazines
So many memories, and they aren't always of the art.
News
Guggenheim Breaks Off Negotiations with Gulf Labor Over Migrant Rights
On April 13, the Guggenheim Board of Trustees informed the Gulf Labor Coalition that it will no longer negotiate with the group regarding the living and working conditions of the workers who are and will be building its museum in Abu Dhabi.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the attention web, Art Institute of Chicago's rehanging, Superman's Jewishness, Libeskind in Kurdistan, defining neoliberalism, and more.