Art
The Handmade Horns and Drone Music of a Fluxus Composer
“The performance is about 70 minutes long,” said 72-year-old composer Yoshi Wada, introducing his iconic “Earth Horns with Electronic Drone” at Soho's Emily Harvey Foundation.
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Art
From Pyramids to Ostriches, Stereoscopic Views of Late-19th-Century Egypt
In the late 19th century, many publishing companies produced stereoscopic photographs as a way to commercialize images of foreign lands as people began to travel more frequently and as tourism as an industry boomed.
Performance
A Splintered and Sung Exploration of Black Women's Identities
The title of writer-dancer-artist-choreographer Ralph Lemon's new production, Scaffold Room, describes equally well the contraption on and around which it's staged and the way the piece is structured.
Art
Astrological Aesthetics: November 2015 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
Art
What Will Become of the South Bronx?
The South Bronx is quickly becoming a nexus of competing interests vying for control of a housing and arts frontier that could become the next Brooklyn.
Art
An Artist’s Sprawling Universe of Sex and Death, with New Orleans at Its Center
NEW ORLEANS — During a recent tour of the Michael Meads retrospective at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, curator Bradley Sumrall jokingly credited the artist with single-handedly inventing the “hot redneck” genre with his photographs of young Southern men in various states of languid shirtlessness
Announcement
New York Live Arts Presents Wunderbaum's "Looking for Paul," a Performance About Paul McCarthy's Buttplug Gnome
New York Live Arts presents the premiere of Wunderbaum’s Looking for Paul, a genre-colliding work that questions art’s purpose, how it gets made, and the international funding systems that support its existence, all through the lens of Paul McCarthy’s controversial body of work.[http://engine.nectar
Art
The Formal Challenges of Figurative Painting
Making sense of an overarching theme like “figuration” would seem a daunting task.
In Brief
$260M Plan to Resurrect Ancient Wonder of the World Aims to Save Greek Island's Economy
The Colossus of Rhodes, destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BCE, may soon rise again, redesigned and totally tricked out for the 21st century.
Art
"Like Trying to Shift an Aircraft Carrier": Museum Association Board President Calls for Greater Diversity
It's necessary for museums and historic sites to work toward greater diversity, even though trying to change thid field is “like trying to shift an aircraft carrier.”
Comics
Waiting to Be Inspired
Some say that you can't force inspiration.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, glorious space photos, Ben Carson's Jesus kitsch, rich people trying to get a tax write-off, the Whitney Museum's original sin, Jeff Wall's insecurities, and more.