Art
Bodies at War: ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman’ at MoMA
World War II signaled the death of figurative art, or so the High Modernist narrative once contended.
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In Brief
US Presidential Hopeful Ben Carson Bizarrely Believes Egyptian Pyramids Were Grain Silos
The Presidential race isn't exactly a showcase of the best and brightest in US society, but Republican candidate Ben Carson hit a new intellectual low with his claim that the ancient pyramids of Egypt were used to store grain.
Film
After 44 Elusive Years, a French New Wave Masterpiece Comes to Theaters
As it might be if Harper Lee or Thomas Pynchon ambled out of seclusion and made appearances at bookstores and literary conferences, the world theatrical premiere of Out 1: Noli me Tangere is not simply a coming-out party.
News
Artists Denounce Brooklyn Museum for Hosting Real Estate Summit
On November 17, the Brooklyn Museum will host the sixth annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit, a gathering of more than 600 of the biggest players in Brooklyn's real estate market.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Sotheby's sold the world's largest cat painting for $826,000, the V&A Museum denied rejecting a collection of Margaret Thatcher's clothing, and a long-lost Disney cartoon was discovered at the BFI National Archive.
Art
A Boston Podcast by and for Artists of Color
The podcast serves as a vehicle for the conversations the founders are intent on having, from current events to the experience of creating, in a space free of the dynamics of performance and privilege.
In Brief
Oh Shit! British Royal Collection Finds Pooper Hidden in 17th-Century Painting
It turns out that Isack van Ostade’s “A Village Fair With a Church Behind” (1643) — as the painting was perhaps cheekily titled — shows a man with his pants down relieving himself in the middle of a busy street.
Art
The Met and Hyperallergic Present "In Our 'Extreme Present' Time with Shumon Basar"
Our fall collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art continues on Friday, November 13.
Art
Mapping the Gender Imbalance in City Street Names
This August, activist group Osez le Féminisme (Dare to be Feminist) installed guerrilla signs in Paris to rename streets and parks after women like singer Nina Simone, sailor Florence Arthaud, and author Simone de Beauvoir.
Announcement
Visit Liza Lou's "Color Field," a 1,100 Square-Foot Installation at the Neuberger Museum of Art
It took a village — over 500 people beading, sorting, and arranging under Liza Lou’s watchful eyes and plan — to install "Color Field," Lou's new 1,100-square-foot work, on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6Nzc3NzAsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsIm
Art
Mossy Virtual Reality Helmets Let You See the Forest as Animals Do
Compared to certain animals, humans have pretty limited vision.
Books
Hopscotching Through Patti Smith’s Mind
Smith’s new memoir “records time backwards and forwards” as she skips from moment to moment across the past forty years of her life.