Art
Painting the Imagined Space Where East and West Harmonize
Salman Toor’s insular scenes of life in Pakistan have vanished.
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Announcement
Artist Open Call: 'Postcard from a City,' Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland
The Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland, is hosting an open call to invite one artist to take part in Postcard from a City, which is organized as part of the international "Heroes We Love.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTA3ODczLCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjbSI6MzM1MDcxLCJjaCI6MTkz
Interview
Why Are There So Few Black Full Professors of Art History in the US?
Steven Nelson, professor of art history at UCLA, and Director of the African Studies Center, recently tweeted that he is a member of a rare and exceptional group: one of six full professors in art history, who are black, in the United States.
Art
Jeremy Deller's Indelibly British Brand of Anti-Capitalist Pop
MEXICO CITY — Although presented as a series of discrete events across time, history is written every day through humanity’s incessant production of time-sensitive ephemera that define the aesthetics, sounds, and languages of our epoch.
Comics
An Artist's Obligatory "Affordable" Holiday Sale
The annual obligatory holiday Christmas "Affordable" end-of-season "fine craft" starving artist deck-the-walls art sale!
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, serious landscape painting, profiling the Met's Sheena Wagstaff, living in a Frank Lloyd Wright home, the first thing ever purchased on the internet, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Train
Today is the 100th birthday of Billy (“Take the A Train”) Strayhorn.
Performance
Performa 15: Rewarding Musical Turns, and Unused Real Estate
In the final phase of Performa 15, which ended on November 22, a couple of performances turned profitably to music, creating synergies with standardized hand gestures in one case and the dynamics of theater lighting in the other.
Art
Mary Heilmann Invites Us to Join Her in Arcadia
When I first wrote about Mary Heilmann for Artforum (January 1987), one thing I had in mind was the strong impression that her first great painting, “Save the Last Dance for Me” (1979), had made on me some years earlier, when I saw it at the Holly Solomon Gallery.
Music
Grimes, Self-Conscious Art Angel
Put on the new Grimes album and prepare for 50 minutes of squeal.
Books
Surround Sound: The Sonic Environments of Jacob Kirkegaard's ‘Earside Out’
This past spring, the Danish Museet for Samtids Kunst acknowledged the hard-won singularity of countryman Jacob Kirkegaard by granting him his first solo exhibition, Earside Out.
Art
What I Think I See in the Paintings of Jan Baltzell
PHILADELPHIA — Most of Jan Baltzell’s recent paintings, currently on view at the Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, are on Mylar. DuPont, in the 1950s, was an early developer of Mylar, which is made of stretched polyester.