Performance
Injecting Conversations on Gender, Race, and Gay Rights into Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’
If the function of architecture is to create contemplative spaces, then the theater has become a place for ghosts.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an art dealer was accused of flogging forgeries, Airbnb renters stole their hosts' Banksy print, and Egyptian authorities arrested three men for selling chunks of the Giza pyramids to tourists.
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In New York City, Punk Is in the Air
There was a week in high school when my mom begrudgingly let me stay out in New York City for almost three nights in a row.
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Dhaka Art Summit Censors Pro-Tibet Artwork at Chinese Ambassador's Request
Nangdrol, an 18-year-old Tibetan living in Sichuan Province, China, penned a farewell letter on February 19, 2012.
Books
Quiet Drawings from a Life Lost in Mental Institutions
In one of the drawings discovered in a well-worn album, fished out of the trash in 1970 by a teenager in Springfield, Missouri, a wide-eyed woman points to a bouquet of flowers below the words "ECTLECTRC PENCIL."
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, the fourth LA Art Book Fair opens at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cinefamily screens a love-themed sound poem, an artist installs a library on a lake, and more.
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After Exile, an Artist Confronts the Aesthetics of Diaspora
Azzam gives each work an overarching sense of incompleteness, a longing for a place to which one can never return.
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Unraveling and Customizing the Language of Power
LOS ANGELES — Customizing Language explores how geopolitical power is expressed and managed through language, and enhances our understanding of it as a verbal communication system.
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An Art Collector’s Dream of a String of Caribbean Museums Starts in Flatbush
It’s a long subway ride from Manhattan’s Upper East Side — where some of the world’s most ornate apartment buildings stand amid a gulch of world-class cultural institutions — to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush, where the Philip Howard Apartments loom over the patchwork of new commercial real e
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Polaroids Steeped in the Fog of Memory
CURITIBA, Brazil — Despite Polaroid having officially discontinued its product in 2008, it has resisted extinction.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, two performance artists channel Sarah Palin and Donald Trump, art critics do their thing live, an artist demonstrates his homemade musical instruments, and much more.
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Take a Bite Out of Modernism with MoMA's 1988 Architecture Cookie Cutters
Which modern architecture icon makes a better cookie, Eero Saarinen's sleek TWA Terminal or Frank Lloyd Wright's spiraling Guggenheim Museum?