Art
A New Museum Encourages Us to Consider Death
NEW ORLEANS — No matter how strong your stomach for the macabre, there is likely some moment in the Museum of Death that will make it twist.
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Collector Funds Scheme to Get More Work by Women Artists into UK Museums
Art collector Valeria Napoleone is spearheading an initiative to put artwork by women in museums in the UK and US.
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Protesters Demand Smithsonian Kick David Koch Off National Museum of Natural History Board,
WASHINGTON, DC — Chanting "kick Koch off the board" and lifting signs with slogans like, “climate deniers out of science museums,” a crowd of protesters picketed in front of the Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) just after 12:30pm.
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Graffiti Artists Sue 5Pointz Developer for Whitewashing Their Murals
Nine artists are suing Jerry Wolkoff, the owner of the 5Pointz site in Long Island City, Queens, for destroying their murals when his company G&M Realty had the building whitewashed in November 2013.
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Determined Scholar Reassembles a 2nd-Century Medical Manual
The 11-volume On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs by 2nd-century Greek physician Galen, with its ancient guidelines for pharmacology, was standard reading for centuries in the medical profession.
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Explosion in Yemeni Capital Damages 2,500-Year-Old UNESCO Site
On Friday an explosion tore through the old city district of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, destroying several buildings in the 2,500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site.
Art
Sculptors Pay Tribute to an 18th-Century Botanist in Wood
Long before North Americans could pick up tomato seedlings at their local hardware store, there was John Bartram.
Art
How a Long-Lost Silent Film Helped Rescue a Forgotten Kiowa Tipi
OKLAHOMA CITY — In 1920, a distinctive tipi painted with horizontal stripes appeared in a silent film called Daughter of Dawn.
Art
Unimaginative Revisions of Key Moments in US Race Relations
LOS ANGELES — Historical Fiction, Tyler Shields’s new photography show at the Andrew Weiss gallery in Los Angeles, is an interpretation of some important moments in 20th-century US history.
Comics
The Woman Who Encouraged Me to Draw Penises
When I was 15, my parents drove me once a week to the local university to take life drawing with the late Selma Waldman.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, whiteness of the avant-garde, history of ultramarine, Christo's new project in Italy, rise of the Yuccies, Jane Austen getting workshopped, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Wreck
“Contemporary art’s job is to wreck what came before.” John Waters, from his commencement speech at the Rhode Island School of Design last weekend.