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Metropolitan Museum’s Admission Now “Suggested” Rather Than “Recommended”
Since 1893, admission to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has been as little as a penny.
Art
Confronting Homelessness Close to Home, with Help from Martha Rosler
SEATTLE — “Home Prices Bring Smiles, Tears.” “Anti-Homeless Attacks Won’t Solve Problem.” When I saw these headlines running across the Seattle Times and Seattle Weekly newspapers earlier this month, a single sentence flashed through my mind, on repeat: “Housing is a human right.”
Art
Imperialism and Its Discontents at Tate Britain
LONDON — Artist and Empire contains something for everyone, ranging from fierce pride to loathing, as well as everything in between.
Comics
Is It Art or Illustration?
I'm normally not too concerned with labels, but the whole art vs. illustration thing always kinda bothered me.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the whiteness of power in the US, Minnesota's racist State Capitol paintings, black women and the Oscars, poet Eileen Myles defends Hillary Clinton, does eastern Congo need an art gallery, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Vacant
"Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Jaimy Gordon’s 'Lord of Misrule'
Jaimy Gordon passed through my field of vision some time in the early 1980s.
Art
More than Meets the Eye
If you see lots of work by different artists, you are going to make your own connections.
Books
Susan Bee and Johanna Drucker Tell the Real Life Stories of Fabulous Females
In the tradition of Lives of the Saints and, even more pointedly, Laura (Riding) Jackson’s Lives of Wives, visual artist Susan Bee and book artist Johanna Drucker have created a wonderful new “picture” book, Fabulas Feminae or fables of women.
Music
Justin Bieber, Sex Panther
The consensus was that this former child star’s career was over; no longer in his target demographic’s age range, he found himself unable to push the same buttons as before, and was prepared to fade, slowly but honorably, from the public spotlight.
Art
Firestarter: Otto Piene’s Elemental Art
The victors and the vanquished approached the development of avant-garde art in the aftermath of World War II in markedly different ways.