Film
A Test of Faith: Jacques Rivette's Story of Marie and Julien
No one is quite likeable in Jacques Rivette’s 2003 film, The Story of Marie and Julien.
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Art
Starting in 1963, a Photographer Spends His Life Exploring Worlds We Have Yet to Recognize
This is Barboza in a nutshell: headstrong and determined. He did move New York and go to the school he found in the telephone book, but not for long because it wasn’t serious enough.
Opinion
Follow-Up to My Review: Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know About This Great Photographer?
Very soon after my review of Louis Draper was published in Hyperallergic Weekend (February 7, 2016), I got an email from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and from the Museum of Modern Art.
Books
The Kimono, Examined: A New Book and a Definitive Collection
In the West, is there any garment more elegant than a tuxedo, one that makes its wearer, no matter what size or age, almost always look (and feel) great? In the East — specifically, in Japan — the kimono may be a similar, inestimable costume.
Art
Paint as Language, Language as Paint: Paul D’Agostino’s Chromatic Alphabet
The fluency of concept and form in Paul D’Agostino’s new, bifurcated show at Life on Mars marks a further consolidation of his rigorous attention to language and the infinity of ways it can be parsed, subverted, and remade.
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Dive into Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" in Virtual Reality
Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" already offers its own immersive, bizarre experience, with scenes of Eden and hell framing a hallucinatory garden.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Facebook censored Evelyne Axell's 1964 Pop art painting "Ice Cream," a badger uncovered a trove of Bronze Age artifacts near Stonehenge, and Ann Freedman and the Knoedler Gallery settled a lawsuit brought by collectors who bought a fake Mark Rothko painting from the gallery.
Art
Plastic Bongs, Chinese Mini-Zines, and Endless Labors of Love at the LA Art Book Fair
The fair is a cornucopia of art-world rarities, oddities, and editioned experiments at every turn.
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Federal Agency Finds Labor Violations at B&H Photo, Fines Company $32,000
Health and safety conditions at B&H Photo Video's two warehouses in Brooklyn do not meet federal labor standards, investigators with the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) have determined, confirming a number of worker allegations against the national electronics retailer.
Art
Playing with Time on a Gilded Age Piano
George A. Schastey had one of the most popular design firms among New York City's Gilded Age elite, but now his work is barely known.
Art
A New Municipal Gallery in San Francisco Keeps Its Focus on the Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO — The 1960s upset the status quo in nearly all realms of American life. The decade issued radical ways of thinking about, making, performing, and exhibiting art, and San Francisco was at the vanguard.
Art
Vinegar Valentines: The Nasty Anonymous Letters of the Victorian Age
In the late 19th century, a valentine in the post might not necessarily mean a romantic message from a lover or admirer, it could be a downright acidic insult.