Art
Prolegomena to Any Future Poetics of the Cat Video
Cats in general, and cat videos in particular, appear to test, and sometimes to confirm, familiar ideas about the essence of art.
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A Lifetime of Sketchbooks from Postwar Painter Richard Diebenkorn
Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn kept sketchbooks for his entire career; they served as a sort of nomadic studio where he experimented with visuals that bridged figurative and abstract ideas.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a profile of the family benefiting from a wealthy San Francisco art school, new science fiction about climate change, a shamed Getty curator tells her story, Belize's art revolution, a pomo architecture hater, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Competition
There was much talk of competition in the news this week, as tech companies poach each other's talent and workplace culture turns brutal inside Amazon and across the business landscape.
Art
Hollywood, Texas: The Movie Myths of Hubbard/Birchler
HOUSTON — The exhibition’s name – Sound Speed Marker – gets at the essence of Austin-based artist-duo Hubbard/Birchler’s work. As moving-image artists, Dubliner Teresa Hubbard and the Swiss Alexander Birchler make self-reflexive film: film about the elements of film.
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Beer with a Painter, LA Edition: Charles Garabedian
LOS ANGELES — “I can barely remember doing all this,” Charles Garabedian says to me as he flips through the pages of his own museum exhibition catalog, which I have brought along.
Music
Kacey Musgraves, Ouroboros
“I ain’t pageant material,” declares country songbird Kacey Musgraves on the title track to her new album, but the song’s too pretty, too demure, too well-mannered.
Art
I Is an Other: The Mail Art of Ray Johnson
Ray Johnson disappeared near Sag Harbor just over twenty years ago. But if we refer to the artist by the art, he’s still among us.
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Going Meta: Art after the Death of Art
Terminology is slippery, and using it as the premise for an exhibition can be slipperier still. But the concept underlying Metamodern, a group show at Denny Gallery on the Lower East Side, actually holds the potential to enrich an already strong array of works with a few additional, if speculative,
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8 Hours at the Guggenheim's 24-Hour Party
Every party has a life cycle.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: New Orleans city officials consider inviting artists to appropriate the city's Confederate monuments, dismal queues plague Banksy's Dismaland, and avant-garde band Laibach became the first Western act to perform in North Korea.