Art
In Paris, a Museum of African Art Brings Out Its Jewels
PARIS — In his prescient book Black Sculpture (1915), Carl Einstein describes certain transcendent examples of African sculpture as a form of “fixed ecstasy.”
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Intact Bronze Age Wheel Turns Up in Britain
Archaeologists with the University of Cambridge have uncovered the largest and most complete example of a Bronze Age wheel, the earliest of its kind in Britain.
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A Photographer Follows the Ubiquitous Bike Taxis of Burundi
“Uwunguruza abantu n’ikinga,” in the Kurundi dialect of Burundi, means “bike taxi-man.”
Art
Photography's Blue Period Gets Its First Major Show in the US
In 1842, British scientist Sir John Herschel experimented with the effect of light on iron compounds, inventing a process to produce the blue-tinted prints we know as cyanotypes.
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Garments from the Graves of Late Antiquity
Over 50 examples of textile garments and furnishings are on view in Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
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Artist Plans New York City Monument To Put Donald Trump in His Place
Now the world may receive its first Donald J. Trump public sculpture, which isn't exactly an honorable tribute to the Cheeto-colored candidate scarily inching his way to becoming the Republican presidential nominee.
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Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit Home, Dropping it at the Corner of Appropriation and Ruin Porn
DETROIT — You can’t really talk about expatriate American artist Ryan Mendoza's “The White House” project without talking about appropriation.
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Bye-bye Brands, Hello Art? Bushwick Open Studios Is Moving from June to October
Arts in Bushwick surprised artists last week with an understated email announcing “a few changes to our programming dates.”
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Government Pressure Forces Closure of Vietnamese Artist Residency
What started as a series of unexpected visits from Vietnam's Cultural Police has left one of Southeast Asia’s most respected artist residency programs temporarily stalled.
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Yo, Make Deborah Kass's Public Sculpture in Brooklyn Permanent!
When I first saw it in November I was immediately inclined to bemoan the fact that Deborah Kass's canary yellow public sculpture "OY/YO," installed on the Brooklyn waterfront in Dumbo, will not be there permanently.
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Inside van Gogh's Bedroom
CHICAGO — On Monday, February 15, I slept in Vincent van Gogh's bedroom, the room from the Yellow House in Arles that he famously painted in 1888 and 1889.
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The Boring Part of Making Art
It may force you to stop making art.