In Brief
Nude Drawing Classes Are Therapy for Middle-Aged Japanese Virgins
The Hollywood trope of the 40-year-old virgin, lampooned in Steve Carrell's 2005 film, isn't a joke in Japan.
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Art
The Calm and Controversy of 12 Horses in an Art Gallery
For a gallery with 12 horses and a line of visitors stretching out the door, Gavin Brown's enterprise is exceptionally hushed.
News
Transatlantic Trade Agreement Could Spell Disaster for Culture
We all know about NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, but TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership currently being brokered between the United States and European Union, has received some attention in Europe and remarkably little in the US.
Opinion
Celebrating Marriage Equality in the US with Tom of Finland
Today the United States Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage — henceforth known simply as "marriage" — is protected by the Constitution.
Art
A Guide to the 20th-Century Artists' Graves of New York City
Following our exploration of the artist graves in New York City from the 19th and early 20th centuries, we continue into the 20th and 21st centuries.
Art
Seeing Mexico Through the Lens of One of Its Great Cinematographers
When it comes to the celebrity of film crews, fame is not fickle; it dotes lovingly on the director.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a number of rock paintings were documented for the first time in Colombia's Chiribiquete national park, David Shrigley designed a mascot for the Partick Thistle football club, and New York's Stonewall Inn received landmark status.
Art
A Textile Artist's Long Overdue US Survey Ropes You In
Human figures seem to lurk in almost all of Françoise Grossen's folded, knotted, and coiled rope sculptures.
Art
In Mainstream Museums, Confronting Colonialism While Curating Native American Art
Recent criticism of The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, which closed recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sheds light on the many issues that arise when mainstream art museums present Native American art.
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Sum of the Arts
Percentage of 40,000 museum visitors surveyed in 2010 who enjoyed guided tours = 31
Books
Rare Stephen Sprouse Sketches Shine a Light on the 1980s Style Icon
If there were ever a fashion world equivalent of Andy Warhol, the universe found it in Downtown street kid Stephen Sprouse.
Art
A Song That Will Outlive Us All
Longplayer is designed to play for a thousand years, which means the composition must outlast technology and catastrophes, and be carried on by generations not yet born.