Art
Finding Dark Humor in the Plight of the Feminist Artist
In her latest exhibition, Death Is a Conceptual Artist, feminist icon Mira Schor delivers a slow-motion knockout blow.
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What Do You Paint?
A few months back, I was asked a really innocent question by someone in the art world.
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Anselm Kiefer's Heady and Heavy-Handed Behemoths
PARIS — Anselm Kiefer’s swashbuckling, material-laden, paint-encrusted canvases and “alchemical” vitrines supposedly transport us into thick intellectual zones of passion for German history and land.
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19th-Century Storm Chasers Took the First Tornado Photographs
In the 19th century, when photography was developing into a mass medium, a few intrepid early adopters pointed their glass plate cameras at one of the most intimidating natural forces on Earth: the tornado.
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This Art Exhibition Wants You to Feel
SANTA FE — During the summer of 2013, Seattle-based artist Emma Levitt’s partner died suddenly.
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Pritzker Prize–Winning Architect Makes Low-Cost Housing Plans Open Source and Free
Alejandro Aravena, the recipient of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, has released a collection of his low-cost housing plans online as an open-source resource — an attempt to help tackle the growing global housing shortage.
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Apply Now for Summer Residencies at SVA: Typography as Language and The Business of Type
Join the School of Visual Arts from June 27—July 22nd for its four-week summer residency program, Typography as Language
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Too Rembrandt to Fail: Dutch Bank 3D Prints “New” Old Master
You may be quick to identify a portrait unveiled this week in Amsterdam as a never-before-seen painting by Rembrandt.
Art
Retrieving the History of Indonesia’s Massacred Chinese Community
For FX Harsono, art is activism.
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Darkly Absurd GIFs of Famous Paintings
Goya's Saturn devours his son on a park bench, flinging chunks of arm to a flock of pigeons; the lady in pink of Edward Hopper's "Morning Sun" snaps out of her reverie when a bird crashes into her bedroom window; the raining men of Rene Magritte's "Golconda" jump out of a plane and splatter bloodily
Books
Uncovering a Manifesto in the Blog of Visionary Architect Lebbeus Woods
From 2007 to 2012, the late architect Lebbeus Woods kept a blog that offered a peek into the mind of one of our most visionary contemporary creators.
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From an English Factory to the Streets of Detroit, Disrupting Space with Dance
DETROIT — “There’s something weirdly comforting about knowing there’s a load of cities in the world that are in the same situation,” said Chloë Brown.