Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the origins of color, what art museums today should look like, a guide to feminist cybersecurity, a tax safe haven for selfish art collectors, emoticons as court evidence, and more.
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Opinion
Weekend Words: Two
“Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize China’s economic ascent,” writes Chris Buckley in The New York Times, “the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old ‘one child’ policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children.”
Art
Tic-Tac-Toe at the End of the World
PHILADELPHIA — As I walked through the Dufala Brothers new show, Waste Dreams, currently on view at the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, I had the feeling of a dream in which I seemed to recognize everything, but none of the dimensions were right and nothing could be used for its intended pu
Art
Squeak Carnwath’s Guilt-Free Zone Is Our Space
Squeak Carnwath’s exhibition, What Before Comes After, at Jane Lombard is the artist’s first with the eponymous gallery (formerly Lombard Fried) and her first in New York since 2000.
Music
Long Road Outta Compton
Dr. Dre has been coasting on myth for so long that the success of his new album comes as a genuine surprise.
Art
An Endless Succession of Roles: Joan Brown's Self-Portraits
When Joan Brown began attending the California School of Fine Arts in 1955, she was immediately dissatisfied with her classes and the structure of art education in general.
Art
Something Worth Arguing About: Frank Stella Fills the Whitney
Frank Stella: A Retrospective, which opened yesterday at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is a brilliantly curated, blatantly overhung masterstroke of an exhibition that turns the artist’s weaknesses into strengths and his strengths into powerhouses.
News
Unbeliebable! Justin Bieber Reveals New Album Tracklist Through Graffiti Stunt
That freshly painted graffiti in your city isn't just a large mural of random words — it's the title of a song by none other than cantankerous Canuck Justin Bieber, who is using street art to promote his forthcoming album, Purpose.
Art
A Maze in Philadelphia Focuses Attention on the Hidden Cruelty of US Prisons
The US prison system is one of the world's great shames.
Interview
Empathy, Fantasy, and the Power of Protest: A Conversation with Chitra Ganesh
In artist Chitra Ganesh’s latest exhibition, Protest Fantasies at Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco, protest becomes something more than rebellion — it becomes internal.
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British Museum Will Train Iraqis in Rescue Archaeology
There's nothing like watching ISIS blow up the ancient city of Nineveh to make archaeologists, conservationists, and historians feel helpless.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: monumental sculptures by Deborah Kass and Hank Willis Thomas were commissioned for sites near the Brooklyn Bridge, Goldsmiths endowed six scholarships in response to Europe's migrant crisis, and a new Tumblr collected the nastiest museum reviews on Yelp.