Art
What Will You Do About Chris Killip’s Challenge?
Chris Killip is a photographer who is deeply concerned with family and community.
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Art
The Disappearers
What happens when one’s language is not heard? Or heard, but not recognized? When one’s speech carries within it holes of silences: hesitations, pauses, caesuras, stutters, and apprehensions?
Performance
Splendor Is Never Enough: 'Manon Lescaut' at the Metropolitan Opera
The Met’s new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, directed by Richard Eyre, takes place in a meticulously, even extravagantly realized World-War-II France, with sidewalk cafes and lots of Nazis.
Books
America’s Secret Societies: A New Book Probes Their Art and Mysteries
What is more titillating — knowing that someone is guarding a delicious secret you might never be invited to share, or being charged with protecting some precious confidence of your own?
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Carrie Moyer
When Carrie Moyer and I decided to have a conversation, her recent paintings were already at DC Moore Gallery, where her solo exhibition — now on view — was soon to open. We met there after hours, and over beer and chips, and talked among the works leaning against the walls.
Art
Cultural Differences Between East and West, Reduced to Pictograms
When graphic designer Yang Liu moved from Beijing to Berlin at age 13, she found herself in culture shock.
News
Tweet Your Art at NASA to Send It on an Asteroid Journey
This September, NASA is launching its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft on a return journey to the Bennu asteroid, and is inviting the public to send space-inspired art along for the galactic ride.
Art
Previously Unpublished Pics of Picasso in His Studio
Rare, previously unpublished photographs of Pablo Picasso in his studio are now on view in Paris, offering intimate views of the artist in several of his French ateliers.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Ai Weiwei's new refugee-themed artworks and actions drew sharp criticism, Spain ruled that an alleged accomplice in the Knoedler Gallery affair can be extradited to the US, and the Metropolitan Museum defended its widely ridiculed new logo.
Art
What Did You Do on Your Sabbatical?
BOSTON — I was on sabbatical, so I had time. Time to create turned into time to think, and I couldn’t think about anything other than death.
Art
The First Museum Retrospective for a Video Game Artist Explores Why the Medium Matters
Whether a five-minute walk through one man's life or a maze that would take two millennia to explore, Jason Rohrer creates meaningful experiences that could only exist as games.
Comics
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