Performance
A Tale of Revenge that Runs from Ancient Greece to ISIS
Playwright Charles Mee is a master at mining ancient myths for the truths that transcend memory-torturing details and reimagining those truths for contemporary theatergoers.
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Art
When Found Photographs Tell New Stories
SAN FRANCISCO — Situated directly under the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography occupies a 28,000 square foot warehouse originally built in 1935.
Art
ArtRx NYC
When your eyes start watering and you hit fairtigue, try an experimental music festival, an exhibition of work by art handlers at major NYC museums, a black art Wikipedia edit-a-thon, or any of these other events.
In Brief
Apple Watches Won't Work on Tattooed Wrists
The new Apple Watch is the pinnacle of technological achievement.
Art
Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega
Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata photographed every bodega in Manhattan from December of 2012 to August of 2013, and even in that short span she saw so many shutter that it became depressing to return for second shots.
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Performance Artists Use Stand-Up Tropes, but Not For Laughs
LOS ANGELES — There’s nothing funny about art. Writing art criticism is a serious endeavor. But at some point, the performance of professionalism in the art world just started to feel like one big joke.
Guide
Your Concise Guide to Frieze Week 2015
Have you finally recovered from Armory Week? Are you ready to do it all again? Too bad, because it’s Frieze Week in New York City!
Art
'Black Mirror' Punishes and Rewards Passive Viewing
The show is a patchwork of guilt and fascination: even as it prompts us to renounce the passivity of watching, its success as a television series requires our complicity.
Art
The Scientist Who Shot His Photos with a Gun and Inspired Futurism
The phased movement of Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) and the frenetic action embodied in Futurism were both inspired by the 19th-century photography of scientist Étienne-Jules Marey.
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Design Your Future at Parsons
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Paintings That Blur Pixel and Pigment
The title of the current group show at The Hole gallery, Post-Analog Painting, sounds like a term invented by art historians.
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News
Syrian Film Collective Withdraws from Venice Biennale, Claims Censorship [UPDATED]
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.