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VENICE — The Abounaddara collective has withdrawn from All the World's Futures, the 2015 Venice Biennale's central exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor, claiming that their opening short film, "All the Syria's Futures," was "censored" by not being screened on May 5.
Art
DETROIT — It is easy, when considering the staggering legacy of human history, to think about it as a series of things that took place in the past.
Comics
I don't wanna do anything today.
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Chris Burden, an artist famous both for his pioneering performance work in the 1970s and the intricate large-scale sculptures he made in the ensuing decades, died early Sunday morning at his home in Topanga Canyon, California.
Opinion
This week, sex in museums, too many Picassos, Grayson Perry's Taj Mahal, inmates designing prisons, Kim Kardashian selfie analysis, and more.
Opinion
Happy Mother's Day.
Art
I don’t know Robert Grosvenor, and I have never heard him give a talk, but years ago he made a huge impression on me.
Art
Poetry has never been more of a hackneyed product — from tiresome MFA hybrid poems to stale derivations of pop/Net conceptualism to the New New New York School, always proclaiming that its linking of art, gay male cosmopolitanism, and poetics is “new.”
Art
Much has been seen of the American artist Alexander “Sandy” Calder (1898–1976). And much has been said. Despite the perpetual relevance and freshness of Calder’s art, it is hard to speak about him without descending into cliché-land.
Art
Discovering Japanese Art: American Collectors and the Met is the unsexy title of a luxuriantly sensual exhibit that speaks with uncanny precision to our post-postmodern moment.
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VENICE — Friday's three-hour occupation of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice by arts and activists organizations resulted in a brief meeting between a number of protesters and members of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection staff.
In Brief
The collection of the Nepal Fine Arts Academy (NAFA) is at risk of being lost following the April 25 earthquake that killed thousands and destroyed countless historic and cultural sites.