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Amnesty International Calls for Release of Cuban Dissident Artist
Earlier this week, Amnesty International issued an urgent call for the release of Cuban graffiti and performance artist Danilo Maldonado Machado, also known as El Sexto.
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Books
Taking His Chance: John Cage's Diary
One of the minor ironies of the postwar avant-garde is that an artist so resolutely against personal expression and the myth of the inspired genius should become the focus of a cult of personality.
Film
On 'Amy' and 'Ex Machina'
Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy reconstructs the late singer, Amy Winehouse, by giving the viewer the full story, Amy’s entire life from girlhood until her death.
Art
Naoto Nakagawa’s Art of Seeing and Being
Aristotelians and logical positivists alike have had a field day speculating about the related phenomena of sight, perception, and truth, but what about the revelations one may glean through the unsinkable, old-fashioned medium of elastic, luminous paint?
Art
Every Picture in the World: William Buchina's Dream Logic
William Buchina’s disquieting, enigmatic, and prodigiously complex paintings are one artist’s answer to the relentless media barrage that defines our visual culture, counteracting its torrent of images with a seemingly inexhaustible barrage of his own.
Art
Inventive Twitter Projects Monitor Air Quality, Calm Chemo Patients, and More
At last month's London Design Festival, six projects considered how Twitter might enable interactions beyond verbal communication.
Art
An Artist Couple Explores the Sexy and Not-So-Sexy Realities of Intimacy
DETROIT — Intimacy is often falsely billed as romantic.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Trevor Paglen unveiled a new sculpture of radiated glass, the Basquiat estate demanded a website take down nude photos of the artist, and two cases related to the Knoedler Gallery's alleged sale of forgeries will go to trial.
Film
A Pair of Filmmakers Captures the World in 16mm
The films of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler are silent, brief, and sagely meandering — luminous contemplations of life, film, and the intimacies between the two.
Opinion
Marion True Does Not Deserve Our Sympathy
Marion True, former curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum, made headlines recently by giving her first interview since 2007.
News
Hundreds of Cultural Workers and Institutions Pledge to Refuse Fossil Fuel Money
If you’re an artist who’s complained about the oil industry and the way fossil fuel extraction is damaging the environment, you now have a chance to put your money where your mouth is.
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Getty Research Institute Acquires 150-Year-Old Photographs of Palmyra and Beirut
With ISIS targeting and destroying ancient cultural sites in Syria and Iraq, reducing some to just rubble, it may be that views of these historic structures will survive only in photographs.