Art
Fragile Monuments to the Jar’s Ancient Form
BOSTON — What’s so interesting about Nicole Cherubini’s sculptural work might simply be just how impossible it is to (mentally) house it anywhere specifically.
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Call for Applications: PAFA's Low-Residency MFA
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Hearing a Poignant Eulogy in David Bowie's First Musical
The musical Lazarus, currently nearing the end of a sold-out run at the New York Theatre Workshop, is the closest we'll get to a final David Bowie performance.
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David Bowie's "Lazarus" Video Is a Haunting Farewell
“Look up here, I’m in heaven/I’ve got scars that can’t be seen," sings a frail, blindfolded David Bowie from a hospital bed in his video for "Lazarus," released four days before his death on January 10.
Performance
An Opera About Plucking and Pimping Fallen Angels
The opera Angel's Bone, having its world premiere at the Prototype festival, opens with a married woman fantasizing about telling her husband that she doesn’t love him.
Art
Astrological Aesthetics: January 2016 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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Books
Before Google Earth: A Rare Cartographic Compendium From Renaissance Europe
Long before the ubiquity of Google Maps, these colorful engravings, produced between 1572 and 1617, comprised the world's most accurate and elaborate collection of urban cartography ever made.
Art
Approaching Technology as a Second Skin
MEXICO CITY — Walking through Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Pseudomatisms feels like being inside a cyborg or supercomputer.
Art
Thrills, Fantasy, and Nightmares in 150 Years of Art Inspired by Coney Island
Coney Island has a history as dizzying as any of the roller coasters, carousels, sideshows, and other frenetic attractions that have operated on its piece of Brooklyn shore.
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Movies About Artists I'd Like to See
I'm guessing these won't get made.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, David Bowie's style as a GIF, Sean Penn and El Chapo, wealthy artists and grants, MOCA's new permanent collection installation, and more.