Art
Encircling Darkness: Fred Valentine's Intimate Portraits
It’s an unsentimental portrait, to say the least.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Utah moved closer to designating "Spiral Jetty" its official state artwork, the Queens Museum announced it will give legendary punk group the Ramones a retrospective, and a mouse died at the Museum of English Rural Life after crawling into a historic mousetrap.
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Zona MACO’s Curated Sections Bring a Welcome Coherence to the Art Fair
MEXICO CITY — The 13th edition of Zona MACO, Latin America’s largest art fair, opened here on Wednesday night, bringing 123 galleries from all over the world to the sprawling Centro Banamex convention center.
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New York Times Sues PowerHouse Books for Copyright Infringement
The New York Times is suing independent publisher PowerHouse Books and its CEO, Daniel Power, over a series of images appearing in a book that's highly critical of the Gray Lady's coverage of war.
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Egypt Bans Teen Who Climbed and Took Photos Atop the Great Pyramid of Giza
One teenager's daredevil stunt to procure aerial photographs and video of the Egyptian desert has earned him a lifelong ban from the country.
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Itinerant and Off-the-Map Galleries Find a Place in Mexico City’s Material Art Fair
MEXICO CITY — International art collectors, guzzling mescal and flexing gaudy taste, are descending on this megalopolis, and will leave on Monday with a hangover and something shiny.
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Philosophical Paintings that Bare Their Process
Most artists I know are aware of the painter Sharon Butler, not because she's an overhyped art star, but because of her reputation as a serious, feet-on-the-ground, working artist.
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A Photographer Who Tracked Displacement, from Soviet Gulags to Ethiopia's Civil War
Ruth Gruber was the youngest PhD graduate in the world, earning her degree at the age of 20 with a doctoral thesis on Virginia Woolf (the first academic work on the author), when she trudged out into the Arctic and became the first journalist to interview prisoners at a Soviet Gulag in 1935.
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Faith-Based Initiative
Why do you call moving your studio an "act of faith"?
Books
An Eccentric Visual History of Our Most Basic Shapes
In the 1960s, Italian artist Bruno Munari explored the visual history of the square, circle, and triangle in three books, which Princeton Architectural Press recently compiled.
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In a Tea Ritual, Stopping Time and Reflecting on War with a Veteran
As we sat in a circle, Aaron Hughes began Tea by describing where he was in February 2003: watching the snow fall in his barracks while his fellow American troops were being deployed to Kuwait for the Iraq war.
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Michelangelo Worked Through Acute Arthritis in His Later Years, New Study Says
An article published this week by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine suggests that Michelangelo Buonaroti suffered from osteoarthritis for the last 15 years of his life.