Art
Gordon Parks’s Long-Forgotten Color Photographs of Everyday Segregation
When Life magazine sent Gordon Parks to document the daily lives of three black families living in Alabama, it was 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott.
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A Match Made in Hell: Mr. Brainwash Paints the Kardashians à la Renoir
Mr. Brainwash + Renoir + the Kardashians + flowery pastel hats + frilly Victorian dresses = "good art," declares Corey Gamble, boyfriend of Kris Jenner, in the latest episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, apartment gallery Laurel Doody plays Terry Allen's 1975 "conceptual country" record Juarez, Embassy opens a massive show of artist books, a group exhibition at the Loft at Liz's focuses on African-American artists from Watts, and more.
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Story Is King (and Queen!) at SVA's MFA Visual Narrative
“Story: Visualized” is the mission of the MFA Visual Narrative program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTc0OSwiYXQiOjIwLCJidCI6MCwiY20iOjM0NjMzNCwiY2giOjE5MzAsImNrIjp7fSwiY3IiOjEyNzgxMzYsImRtIjo0LCJmYyI6MTM4MTQyNSwiZmwiOjk3MzA3OSwiaXAiOiIxODQuNzMu
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an art analysis assignment gets a teacher suspended, new reality TV show allegedly glorifies 'grave-robbing,' and Justin Bieber climbs a Mayan ruin and pulls his pants down.
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16th-Century Visions of the Ruins of Religious Wars
As the 16th-century religious wars raged around Europe, Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck collaborated with printmaker Philip Galle on a series of 22 engravings featuring Old Testament destruction.
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Early-20th-Century Drawings of Fanciful Flying Machines
Prussian immigrant Charles A.A. Dellschau spent most of his life in Houston working as a butcher; when he retired in 1899 at the age of 68, he turned his attention skywards and devoted himself to an entirely different endeavor: designing airships and charting the development of flight.
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ArtRx NYC
This week there's even more good stuff to do in NYC than usual, if that's possible. Learn about some histories of "the future," think about taking buildings down, explore the relationship between the occult and art, visit the Black Comic Book Festival, and more.
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Germany’s Leading Art Prize Sets a Museum in Motion
BERLIN — The prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie, considered the German equivalent of the Turner Prize, was inaugurated in 2000 and recognizes artists under the age of 40 who live and work in Germany, regardless of nationality.
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Fragile Monuments to the Jar’s Ancient Form
BOSTON — What’s so interesting about Nicole Cherubini’s sculptural work might simply be just how impossible it is to (mentally) house it anywhere specifically.
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Call for Applications: PAFA's Low-Residency MFA
The Low-Residency MFA program at PAFA is ideal for students who desire the community, support, and rigor of a traditional MFA, along with a more flexible structure to fit their lives and schedules.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTk2MzcsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozMDQ1NTksImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6
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Hearing a Poignant Eulogy in David Bowie's First Musical
The musical Lazarus, currently nearing the end of a sold-out run at the New York Theatre Workshop, is the closest we'll get to a final David Bowie performance.