Opinion
Cindy Sherman in Blackface
Here we go again. #Myhsa (aka @E_SCRAAATCH) has called attention to artist Cindy Sherman’s blackface performance in some rarely seen works from 1976 by using the tag #cindygate.
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Art
A Mother Lode of a Show About Motherhood
MILAN — The most startling pairing in The Great Mother, an exhibition that tracks the iconography of motherhood in art and popular culture from 1900 to 2015, is a sculptural stand-off between Sarah Lucas and Thomas Schütte.
Comics
Date of the Art
Where artists can find each other while discovering themselves.
News
Cooper Hewitt Acquires Historic Textile Designed for UN Security Council
With the world still reeling from World War II, a Norwegian architect was tasked with designing one of the most important places of international peace and negotiation.
Art
Isa Genzken's Art of Disruption
Isa Genzken is not a Dadaist.
Art
An Artist Collects the Stories of Cambodian Refugees
LONDON — Artist Dayanny So left Cambodia when he was 24 years old.
Art
After a Visit to the Vet, a Kaleidophonic Dog Clangs, Bangs, and Whistles Again
If you're roaming the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's modern art galleries, a cacophony of whistles, bells, thuds, and clashes may interrupt your serene stroll.
Art
Finding Art in the Smallness of Everyday Enthusiasms
INDIANAPOLIS — The domestic and personal are generally accorded critical attention when cast as dysfunctional; Michelle Grabner presents the domestic as a relatively positive creative force.
News
20 Hieronymus Bosch Paintings Return Home for Artist's 500th Anniversary
For seven years, Charles de Mooij, the director of a tiny museum in the Netherlands, has been struggling to secure loans to bring all the paintings by Hieronymus Bosch back to their humble birthplace.
Art
Beaded Paintings, Epic Narratives, and Beastlands at a Midwestern Biennial
MINNEAPOLIS — Curator Cheryl Wilgren Clyne has brought together a satisfying, diverse array of Midwestern artists, with a mix of performative and interactive pieces as well as photography, painting, print, and even a living sculpture.
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Artist Angela Washko to Speak and Perform at Temple University Libraries
Acclaimed performance and new media artist Angela Washko has made a career of creating new forums for feminism in the spaces most hostile toward it. On November 5 and 6, Washko returns to her alma mater, Temple University, for a talk and performance.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTAyMDgyLCJ
News
Four Centuries of Cat Art Go Up for Auction
As works by artists from Balthus to Théophile Steinlen reveal, the cat has long been a popular subject for depiction.