Art
PARIS — With electronic digital simulacra, there is no longer a spent nostalgia for natural semblance: Warholian reproducibility is the fundamental logic and code of our information society.
Books
The Latin alphabet's letter A can be traced back to an Egyptian hieroglyph of an ox head; the letter M is believed to have its origins in a hieroglyph representing water.
Announcement
Following the highly acclaimed installations by FAILE, JR, and Dustin Yellin, New York City Ballet collaborates for the 2016 Art Series with Winnipeg native and Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist Marcel Dzama.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NzY1NTUsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozNDYzNDcsImN
Art
In 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, looters set fire to the library of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad. Seventy thousand books were reduced to ashes.
Art
DENVER — Marilyn Minter’s life’s work, four decades of which are brought together in Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, presents the viewer with a Lacanian mirror.
Comics
I love copying paintings.
Art
JAKARTA — Located in a large warehouse in the south of town, the Jakarta Biennale 2015, titled Neither Forward nor Back, mixes works by Indonesian and international artists.
Announcement
These three unique Moore College of Art & Design degrees fuse making, research and action with the subject of place in contemporary art.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NzI2NTIsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozMTM3MjUsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIjoxMjIwNTU4LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjEyOTgzNDAsImZsIjo5MTI1O
In Brief
In Taiwan, there is a church.
Books
Hypnosis straddles the line between science and entertainment, encompassing both the therapeutic practice of hypnotherapy and performative stage acts.
Art
The week I visited Julie Ault’s new show, afterlife, at Galerie Buchholz, I also gave a talk at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) on poetry and the archive.
News
Two artists have rejected their nominations for the Vincent Van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe, which is billed as "one of the world’s leading contemporary art prizes."