Opinion
How Beauty Can Help Us Empathize
This past weekend David Brooks, the conservative columnist at the New York Times left behind his contrarian punditry for a bit and tried his hand at writing on beauty.
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Art
Revisiting a Canadian Icon's Nationalist Landscapes, in the US
LOS ANGELES — Unless you’re Canadian or an art historian, chances are you’ve never heard of the Group of Seven.
Art
Museums Are for Lovers (of Social Media)
LOS ANGELES — You enter the Diana Thater installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and start to read the introductory wall text.
News
After Auction House Censorship, Reporters Without Borders Cancels Benefit Art Sale
An art auction intended to benefit the organization Reporters Without Borders has been canceled after the Israeli embassy in Paris complained about one of the featured works.
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Satellite Images Confirm the Destruction of Iraq's Oldest Christian Monastery by ISIS
Conflict in Iraq has reduced yet another historic site to nothing more than piles of stone, with the blow delivered once more by ISIS.
Opinion
A Few Things You Won't Learn from Stephen Colbert's Interview with the Guerrilla Girls
Gender inequality in the art world is still a thing, and it still needs to go away.
Art
ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, the Los Angeles Poverty Department mounts a retrospective at the Armory in Pasadena, Omar Pimienta offers free citizenship at the Museum of Latin American Art, the longest running photo fair on the West Coast celebrates its 25th anniversary, and more.
News
Mementoes of Grief Go to Auction from the US's Only Museum for Mourning Art
Art related to death in the United States evolved from European influences in the colonial era to a distinct language of mourning, guided by widespread grieving for public figures like the country's presidents.
Art
The Asia Pacific Triennial Chooses the Margins as a Radical Space
BRISBANE, Australia — Suppressed voices, marginalized histories, and public spaces take center stage at the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial.
Art
The Delicate and Daring Works of a Forgotten 17th-Century Japanese Painter
WASHINGTON, DC — Over the course of his career in the 17th century, the Japanese painter Tawaraya Sōtatsu produced a large body of intricate and decorative works on paper.
Books
The Ghosts, Mermaids, and Beautiful Rats of Japan's Tiny Netsuke Carvings
Miniature meditating skeletons, snarling cats, eerie ghosts, and gods of fortune carved in ivory, wood, and horn adorned the sashes of Japanese men throughout the Edo period.