Art
When Rotting Whales Were Toured as Sideshow Spectacles
In researching her new art project, Fiona Tan discovered an odd pamphlet advertising "The Exhibition of Jonah, the Giant Whale caught off Trondheim, Norway."
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In Brief
Bank Offers Art-Buying Classes for Heirs and Heiresses
According to Bloomberg, Citigroup is hoping to prevent losses by teaching the heirs of its wealthiest bank customers how to invest in art.
Performance
Between Now and Nowhere: A Performance Dissects Reality
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — In an age where our attention often frays and never lingers, it is rare to find something that holds it unwaveringly for 60 minutes.
News
Real Estate Developers Sue Oakland Over New Public Art Ordinance
Real estate developers are suing the city of Oakland over a new law that requires them to set aside funds to commission and install public art in new residential and commercial buildings.
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Swiss City Grooms for First Nude Public Performance Art Festival
On August 21, the world's first official, naked public performance art festival will occur in the streets of Biel, Switzerland, featuring projects from 18 international artists.
Art
Fabrics Stained with Colonial Blues
CHICAGO — It is the duality of indigo's beauty and its intimate connection with human degradation that artist Jovencio de la Paz explores in his current exhibition of batik works.
News
Wells Fargo Moves to Sell Nonprofit Art Space’s Home Out from Under It
After supporting and promoting local artists' work for over 54 years, a nonprofit contemporary art center in a converted Elizabethan-style home in New Haven, Connecticut, will likely shut down this week.
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The Propeller Group’s ‘A Universe of Collisions,’ the Final Show at Grand Arts, Opens August 7
The Propeller Group faced impossibly long odds from the outset of A Universe of Collisions. Inspired by a rare artifact from the American Civil War — opposing bullets, conjoined mid-air — the Vietnam-based collective encountered immense tactical challenges in trying to replicate it. At the same time, the group was navigating an
Art
An Exhibition of Fractured and Mended Art
The conservation of artifacts already in museum care is highlighted more often than the repairs creators make to their own objects.
Comics
Different Dreams for Different Decades
Dreams have a tendency to change over the years.
News
Sleek New Short by the FBI Warns of Chinese Espionage
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has inspired countless hours of television and cinema, from X-Files to Silence of the Lambs.
Art
Dieter Roth’s Chaotic and Cacophonous Gesamtkunstwerk
BERLIN — The exhibition And away with the minutes spins like a rococo confection around the prolific noise music projects of the legendary and influential German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth.