Art
The Kalman Family's Language of Looking
"Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough," Gustave Flaubert wrote in a letter.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of international art fairs now held each year = 180 (compared to 55 in 2000)
Interview
Four Decades of Photographing the Relationships Between People
Leaving New York City so your kids can have more green space doesn't sound like a promising start to an artistic career, but Tina Barney isn't typical.
Art
Marcel Broodthaers Killed Art with Currency
I suspect that those in the flow of the globalized 1% who advocate art for money’s sake are purposefully ignorant of Ursula Meyer’s key 1972 proposition.
News
Art World Rallies Around Bank-Robbing Filmmaker
It was intended as a provocative video performance. Late last year, Joseph Gibbons walked into banks in New York and Rhode Island and videotaped himself robbing them.
News
USC Art Alumni Issue Letter in Support of #USC7
LOS ANGELES — In response to the recent decision of the entire first-year USC MFA class to collectively withdraw from their program, a group of over 70 alumni of the Roski School of Art and Design has issued an open letter of support.
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Director of Frankfurt's Ethnographic Museum Fired Without Explanation
Last month the city of Frankfurt fired Clémentine Deliss, the director of its museum of non-Western art, the Weltkulturen Museum, preemptively ending a contract that was due to run through March 31, 2018.
In Brief
Vandals Douse Anish Kapoor's Versailles 'Vagina' with Paint
Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning vandals sprayed yellow paint on Anish Kapoor's sculpture "Dirty Corner" (2011–15), the centerpiece of his current exhibition at Versailles and a work the artist recently likened to "the vagina of the queen."
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The Freedmen Fight for Tribal Citizenship in a New Documentary
OKLAHOMA CITY — "When you know what you really are and you haven't been embraced or acknowledged, it's horrible," says Kenneth Payton, a descendant of the Cherokee Freedmen, in the documentary By Blood.
Art
Why One Ecuadorian Town Has Three Panama Hat Museums
CUENCA, Ecuador — The cool breeze in Cuenca, a city nuzzled in the Ecuadorian Andes at 8,000 feet elevation, blows through its cobblestone streets, rustling the skirts of indigenous women who wear long braids down their back with a baby wrapped in a bright colored shawl slung over their shoulders.
Books
The Lost Ritual of Photographing the Dead
Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death.
Art
An Iranian Artist Exposes Totalitarian Power and Defaces Its Iconography
The manipulation of the masses is ubiquitous in everyday life, from pop culture to religion to politics.