Art
Finding Fulfillment in Images of Empty White Rooms
PARIS — The silence of Seton Smith was significant.
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From Porn to Pizza, Some Postinternet Art Is Deeper Than It Looks
BERLIN — Much has been made of the banality of the apparent thematic interests in the show: porn, pets, plants, and pizza. What seems to have been overlooked in much of the coverage of the exhibition, however, is that this ironic superficiality is just a veneer.
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Street Artists Hack 'Homeland' With Arabic Grafitti
Viewers able to read Arabic who caught last Sunday's US airing of the award-winning television show Homeland may have noticed something bizarre about the graffiti lining the walls of the Syrian refugee camp.
Art
Contemporary Takes on China’s Oldest Painting Technique
DENVER — Do viewers outside of China still expect contemporary Chinese art to "look" Chinese, and what does that even mean?
Art
Two Exhibitions Showcase the Bloody Relics of Hermann Nitsch’s Rituals
Viewers may have seen similar Nitsch installations before, but it is important to re-experience his work, much of which has been long misunderstood by an art world dominated by political theory and formalism.
Announcement
National Parks Arts Foundation Introduces New Hawaii Photo Workshops
The National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) — a nonprofit dedicated to sustaining arts residencies, workshops, and other exhibits in and around the National Parks — announces its new Hawaii Photo Workshops for the end of November.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTAxMDY3LCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjb
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Employees Protest Conditions, Move to Unionize, at Independent Photo Retailer B&H
Workers for B&H Photo Video, the largest independent photo and video product store in the United States, are moving to unionize, demanding that the New York–based institution improve dangerous working conditions and cease acts of discrimination in its Brooklyn warehouses.
In Brief
Tokyo Plagued by Another Logo Plagiarism Fiasco
Tokyo has been working hard to strengthen and promote its brand as it gears up to host the 2020 Olympic Games, but the Japanese capital is having a rough time of it, hiring designers who are short on inspiration.
Art
Death Row Inmates Imagine Their Own Memorials
From a certain angle, the premise seems almost cruel: invite prisoners on death row to design their own memorials — ways for them to be remembered after they've been executed.
Comics
The Perils of Projection
OMG, that's so me!
Art
Two Ceramicists Craft Domestic Intricacies
Whether it is Clemo, with his violated use objects, or Williams, investing painstaking traditional labor into a multitude of simple, decorative forms, both artists are making strong contributions within the continuum of contemporary ceramics.
Interview
A Conversation with Curator Eric Nakamura on the Fourth Giant Robot Biennale
LOS ANGELES — While museum biennials can generally feel like lofty affairs, the Giant Robot Biennale 4 at the Japanese American National Museum takes a more populist approach to its roster of visual artists and illustrators, presenting sketchbooks and zines as well as paintings and sculptures.