Art
The Magic of Light and Shadow in Asian Puppet Theater
LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations.
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Catalogue of Nazi Leader's Looted Art Collection Published for the First Time
At the end of World War II, French soldiers confiscated a curious handwritten book from Nazi leader Hermann Göring. It listed every artwork Göring claimed to own.
Art
Illuminating the Wonders of Paris's Nuit Blanche
PARIS — It was nearly 2am and I was watching snow fall on the abandoned railroad tracks of the Petite Ceinture.
Art
Detroit Artists Take a Hammer to Traditional Ceramics
DETROIT — These days Detroit is a hotbed of craft-based forms revisited.
News
Big Brother Is Bugging Ai Weiwei
“There’s always a surprise,” Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei wrote on Instagram yesterday, captioning a photograph of a surveillance device he found hidden in his studio after returning to Beijing from his first trip overseas in four years.
Art
Prends-Ça! A Paris Exhibition Invites Visitors to Take the Artworks with Them
PARIS — Take Me (I'm Yours) at the Monnaie de Paris revives and expands a 1995 exhibition curated by Christian Boltanski and Hans-Ulrich Obrist at London's Serpentine Gallery, in which all the art is designed to be touched and taken away.
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Art Grown in a Petri Dish
A microbe-filled petri dish isn't usually where one would expect to find art, but it turns out that cell colonies can form some pretty compelling visuals.
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MassArt Announces New Interdisciplinary Masters Program in Design Innovation
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In Brief
ISIS Destroys Palmyra's 1,800-Year-Old Arch of Triumph
ISIS has destroyed the towering Arch of Triumph that stood for 1,800 years in the ancient city of Palmyra, the latest in the militant group's series of attacks that threatens to completely obliterate the World Heritage Site.
Art
The Pomp and Mockery of Louis XIV’s Propaganda Medals
Louis XIV, like politicians of today, knew the value of controlling his public image.
Comics
Things That Could Depress a Painter
What we have to put up with.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, gallerist Marian Goodman speaks, why "bad boy" female artists are ignored, problems with architecture in Chicago, Brian Eno on the ecology of culture, the object that came alive at the British Museum, and more.