Art
A Guide to the 20th-Century Artists' Graves of New York City
Following our exploration of the artist graves in New York City from the 19th and early 20th centuries, we continue into the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Seeing Mexico Through the Lens of One of Its Great Cinematographers
When it comes to the celebrity of film crews, fame is not fickle; it dotes lovingly on the director.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: a number of rock paintings were documented for the first time in Colombia's Chiribiquete national park, David Shrigley designed a mascot for the Partick Thistle football club, and New York's Stonewall Inn received landmark status.
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A Textile Artist's Long Overdue US Survey Ropes You In
Human figures seem to lurk in almost all of Françoise Grossen's folded, knotted, and coiled rope sculptures.
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In Mainstream Museums, Confronting Colonialism While Curating Native American Art
Recent criticism of The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, which closed recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sheds light on the many issues that arise when mainstream art museums present Native American art.
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Sum of the Arts
Percentage of 40,000 museum visitors surveyed in 2010 who enjoyed guided tours = 31
Books
Rare Stephen Sprouse Sketches Shine a Light on the 1980s Style Icon
If there were ever a fashion world equivalent of Andy Warhol, the universe found it in Downtown street kid Stephen Sprouse.
Art
A Song That Will Outlive Us All
Longplayer is designed to play for a thousand years, which means the composition must outlast technology and catastrophes, and be carried on by generations not yet born.
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Reclaiming the Lost Feminism of Fairy Tales
In the back room of the Drawing Center, Natalie Frank's lavish pastels conjure fairy tales in all their grisly and gorgeous glory.
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A Public Art Reflection on #BlackLivesMatter in Baltimore
Inhabitants of Baltimore this week are being confronted by the faces of 42 black artists and activists staring out at them from the city's walls.
Interview
Photographing Queer Life in Port-au-Prince
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities have long kept a low profile because of a strong social stigma that sparks fear of physical violence or social isolation.
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Politicized Artworks That Ask Viewers to Fill In the Unknowns
Two years ago, at a Cildo Meireles retrospective in Madrid, I sat on a wooden dock that overlooked a paper sea and a vast, blue plaster sky.