Opinion
Weekend Words: Star
The greatly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the series, opened this weekend.
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Art
Master of the Lost, Neglected, and Overlooked
A number of innovative artists of the first half of the 20th century discovered and worked with collage and the related practice of assemblage.
Art
For the Love of Paint
Ambition has nothing to do with scale. The largest painting in Eleanor Ray: paintings at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects measures 10 x 8 inches.
Books
Keep Looking: Rebecca Wolff’s 'One Morning—.'
So serene an entry point into this volume, the title One Morning—. promises the lengthening of sunlight across the expanse of a modest domestic existence, incidents without excitement.
Music
Carly Rae Jepsen, Antipersona
Carly Rae Jepsen is the emptiest pop diva to have released an album this year, and that’s not an insult.
Art
Speak, Memory: Becky Suss’s Painterly Anthropology
In his 1973 essay “Approaches to What?,” an underground classic of documentary aesthetics, French writer Georges Perec opposes the drive to find meaning primarily in “the big event, the untoward, the extra-ordinary: the front-page splash, the banner headlines.”
Art
Built-In Fracture: Donald Baechler in the 1980s
In the thoroughly absorbing exhibition Donald Baechler: Early Work 1980 to 1984 at Cheim & Read, there are two works, both from 1982, in which the artist appears to be unlearning how to draw.
Art
Death by a Thousand Operas
DETROIT — Arms flung wide, Joseph Keckler collapses to the floor and dies.
In Brief
A Digital Re-creation of a Lost 18th-Century Shakespeare Museum
One of the first museums created for the enjoyment of the middle class was the Shakespeare Gallery, opened in 1789 by John Boydell.
Art
The Idealism of Early Soviet Russia in Pictures
The Jewish Museum’s The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film examines the beginnings of Soviet Russia, positing that the period from 1921 to 1932 was one of avant-garde artistic experimentation, a time when photographers and filmmakers (many of them Jewish) imagined their c
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: New Orleans City Council voted to remove four confederate monuments, a Vasudeo S. Gaitonde painting set a new auction record for an Indian artwork, and Ed Ruscha donated a collection of his prints to the Tate.
In Brief
Arabic Calligraphy Assignment Prompts Countywide School Shutdown in Virginia
Officials in a Virginia county have closed all local schools following a backlash over one teacher's homework assignment on Islamic calligraphy.