Art
The Winking Irony of “Ecological” Luxury
The Haas Brothers’ witty functional sculptures alluding to ecology proffer an environment that is knowingly — and laughably — unrealistic.
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NYC Unveils 18-Foot Sculpture to Mark Breakdancing’s Olympics Debut
“Rappin' Max Robot” will spend a year in the South Bronx before going on permanent view at the Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad in Paris.
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No, the Olympics Ceremony Did Not Copy “The Last Supper”
The performance that drew ire from conservative critics continues another centuries-old art historical theme: the feast of the gods on Mount Olympus.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This August
Lila de Magalhaes’s fornicating insects, Kyungmi Shin’s excavation of the so-called “Orient,” the late Steve Roden’s genre-bending work, and so much more.
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Artist Says LA Billboard Reproduces His Text Without Permission
“If it was another artist doing it, recycling it into an artwork, that’s different, but this is an ad campaign,” David Horvitz told Hyperallergic.
Books
Art-World Fiction We’re Reading This Summer
Delve into the tales of a queer book conservator at The Met, an actress in the West Bank, a painter with a secret, and other characters whose lives intersect with art.
Art
How Ted Carey Rendered Queerness Through Folk Art
The late artist’s work subverts the genre’s conventions in its centering of the gay community members he knew or admired and the LGBTQ+ spaces he frequented.
Books
The Enslaved People Who Wrote Down the New Testament
Art history has long concealed the scribes who put swaths of the Bible and early Christian writings on paper.
Art
Queerness and Nature Intersect at Wave Hill
Two shows cast a critical eye on our fantasy of nature as it crashes up against the realities of the world we humans have created.
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Iowa Paves Path for Museums With Landmark Restitution of Benin Bronzes
The Stanley Museum of Art is the first North American institution to return the looted objects in its collection to the Benin Royal Court.
Film
When the US Left Afghanistan, This Filmmaker Entered
Director Ibrahim Nash’at spent a year watching the Taliban transition from insurgency back to governance.
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Anne Imhof’s “Wish You Were Gay” Banners Vandalized in Austria
The German Artist called the vandalism outside the Kunsthaus Bregenz an "act of violent aggression.”