Performance
David Byrne's Avant-Color Guard
If you’ve ever been to a high school or college football game, chances are you’ve seen a color guard.
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Art
The Urge to Reach Out and Touch Beyond the Screen
CHICAGO — A flat description of Miami-based artist Jillian Mayer’s work— such as you might find in wall texts or press releases — reads like it’s culled from the syllabus of an Interactive Arts & Media graduate class.
Art
Fact-Checking the Smithsonian's Koch-Funded Climate Change Exhibition
WASHINGTON, DC — Last month’s demonstrations outside the National Museum of Natural History might not have prompted the public outcry activists had hoped for, but the claim that David Koch’s relationship to the museum impacts the content of their Human Origins exhibition deserves consideration.
News
Sotheby's Cleaners and Porters Protest Outside London Contemporary Art Sale
Last night in London, a group of Sotheby's cleaners and porters protested outside the auction house, demanding that it implement the London Living Wage.
Performance
Summoning the Spirit of Frida Kahlo Through a Pre-Columbian Ritual
LONDON — As the centerpiece of this year’s Greenwich + Docklands International Festival (GDF) in London, artistic director Bradley Hemmings has created an outdoor theater production called "The Four Fridas," inspired by the life and work of legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
Art
The Story of a Pope Portrait Made Out of Condoms
MILWAUKEE — It’s not unusual for a work of art to cause outrage, especially if it dips into the tender zones of race, gender, or religion.
Comics
Separating the Junk from Inspiration
My wife recently finished reading Marie Kondo's The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up and the book has been haunting me.
Art
Dispelling the Victorian Myth of the Fallen Woman
At the same time that they cast her to the margins of society, Victorian England was obsessed with the "fallen woman," who had lost her virtue to sex, alcohol, or some other vice.
Art
Dispelling the Victorian Myth of the Fallen Woman
At the same time that they cast her to the margins of society, Victorian England was obsessed with the "fallen woman," who had lost her virtue to sex, alcohol, or some other vice.
In Brief
A Statue in Belgrade Commemorates the Man Who Set Off World War I
Serbia officially endorsed what might be its most controversial historical figure on Sunday when it inaugurated a statue of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who fired the shot that started World War I, the AP reported.
In Brief
A Statue in Belgrade Commemorates the Man Who Set Off World War I
Serbia officially endorsed what might be its most controversial historical figure on Sunday when it inaugurated a statue of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who fired the shot that started World War I, the AP reported.
Art
Sex Is Both Rude and Sweet in an Italian Modernist’s Oeuvre
PARIS — The work of Carol Rama has a powerful belligerence about it.