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Performance

Six Characters in Search of a Puppetmaster

Luigi Pirandello's iconic play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) is being reimagined at La MaMa this month.

News

European Art Award Canceled After Two Nominees Withdraw [UPDATED]

Organizers of the Vincent Van Gogh Biennial Award — known as the Vincent Award — have cancelled this year's edition of the contemporary art prize, presented biennially since 2000 to a mid-career artist who lives and/or works in Europe.

News

10 Years On, Arts in Bushwick Invites the Community to Discuss Plans for the Future

Arts in Bushwick, the producer of New York City’s largest summer kickoff/open-studios event, broke hearts six weeks ago when it announced that this year’s Bushwick Open Studios would be held in October, not June.

Announcement

Now Streaming: A New Short Film by Leslie Thornton, Inspired by Bruce Conner

This chilling exploration of the purpose and repurposing of memory during wartime draws on oral accounts of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, and responds to artist Bruce Conner’s iconic film of the 1946 Bikini Atoll nuclear test, "CROSSROADS" (1976). [http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NzY

Comics

Historical Relevance

Have you ever considered your legacy?

Art

Minimal, Alienating Works That Aren’t Blind to Tradition

In an alley between Greene Naftali gallery and a walled parking lot under the High Line, sit two Haegue Yang installations.

Art

Holdouts: The Solitary Resisters of Real Estate

For all his money and power, Donald Trump couldn't force a widow from her New Jersey home back in the 1990s.

Film

Honoring an American Titan of 20th-Century Experimental Cinema

Ever-moving, ever-changing — that’s the cinema of Bruce Baillie.

Art

An Artist Paints Hopeful Portraits of Palestinians on Cactus Pads

The sabra, a fruit-bearing cactus, holds particular symbolism in both Israel and Palestine, where it grows wild across the region: it survives in all weather conditions, rugged on the outside but soft and sweet on the inside.

Art

Creating a Puppet Documentary for the Count Who Loved a Corpse

The fact that he slept for seven years with the corpse of a woman he loved is, for filmmaker Ronni Thomas, one of the least interesting things about Count von Cosel.

In Brief

Russia's Communist Party Wants to Copyright Iconic Red Star Symbol

Since the Russian Revolution, the red star has served as an international symbol of Communism, spangling the flags and insignia of myriad Communist states.

Interview

Barkley L. Hendricks on "the Fucked-Up-Ness of American Culture"

Barkley L. Hendricks is well known for creating life-size oil paintings of mostly black American subjects from northeastern cities, but his practice involves much more than that.