Art
Surveying Modern and Contemporary Art's Embrace of Ceramics
PARIS — Conversations about art and medium-specificity are almost always conversations about history.
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A Gift to Cooper Hewitt Fills Gaps in the Collection
Thanks to the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's 19th-century roots and the Hewitt sisters' collection, the institution has strong holdings in that era's decorative arts. This month, the New York museum announced that its 20th-century collections were strengthened with a considerable gift fr
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2016 Turner Prize Nominees Revealed
Contrary to Hyperallergic's April Fool's Day predictions, Syrian refugees are not included on the 2016 Turner prize shortlist, which was announced this week. The nominees do include the creator of a giant butt sculpture and an artist who convinced gallery attendees to ride around on a miniature trai
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A Floating House that Responds to Its Environment
Since mid-April, an angular, wooden house floating atop steel pontoons has moored at three sites along the Thames Estuary, all the while monitoring local environmental conditions in this passage where the Thames meets the North Sea.
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Rutgers's 2016 MFA Exhibition, 'Hungry Heart,' Opens May 14
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George W. Bush Started His Art Career on His iPhone
Can George W. Bush eclipse his legacy as a war criminal and one of the worst presidents in American history by continuing to make weird nude self-portraits?
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The Disconcerting Beauty of an Artist's Nude Self-Portraits
Rowan Renee's highly personalized images offer an optimistic and curiously romantic glimpse into her secret world as she works through the long-term psychological trappings of incest, latent anger, and the ability to overcome adversity through telling her story.
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Queering Abstract Art with Wrapped, Grommeted, and "Roughed-Up" Paintings
Harmony Hammond has had a pioneering impact on art, in particular through her insistence on feminist and queer content in abstract work.
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An Ancient Mosaic of the God of Wine Debuts in New York
The Onassis Cultural Center NY is showcasing four decades of archaeological findings from Dion, the ancient Greek village that tried to get as close to the gods as possible by building shrines and structures on the slopes of Mount Olympus.
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Chris Martin Finds a Muse in Amy Winehouse
LOS ANGELES — Paintings about painting are really about life, proposals for how it might be lived.
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The Praise and Prejudices Vigée Le Brun Faced in Her Exceptional 18th-Century Career
The daughter of a pastelist and a hairdresser, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) painted and befriended Marie Antoinette, escaped the horrors of the French Revolution, and forged a career as one of the 18th-century’s greatest portraitists.
Comics
Don't Let the Grumps Get You Down
A grump's guffaw is an honor!