Art
Different Strokes for Jane, or Ekphrasis on Alexis
Pathetic, just pathetic, to expect Strangers to know your name I guess Such is the price of fame
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Art
From Ireland, Photographer Doug DuBois’s Images of Fading Youth
“Youth is wasted on the young” is one of those clever-sounding, achingly wistful quips that have been attributed to various wags of assorted times and places, including the Irish writers Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Lucy Mink Covello
Lucy Mink Covello lives in New Hampshire, not too far from where I spend a couple of weeks every summer. We met at my friends’ farm, spread a blanket under trees in the apple orchard, and shared some beer, bread, and cheese.
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.
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.