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Chris Burden, Pioneering Performance Artist and Large-Scale Sculptor, Dead at 69
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
Required Reading
This week, sex in museums, too many Picassos, Grayson Perry's Taj Mahal, inmates designing prisons, Kim Kardashian selfie analysis, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Mother
Happy Mother's Day.
Art
Robert Grosvenor and the Anonymous Laborer
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
The Prison House of Post-Internet Poetry: A Critical Look at the Poetry of the New Museum’s Triennial
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
Alexander Calder: A Gentle Giant Dancing in His Socks
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
Deleted Boundaries: Japanese Art at the Met
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.
News
The Guggenheim and Protesters Both Respond to #GuggOccupied in Venice
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
Nepal's Only National Art Collection in Peril After Earthquake
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.
Art
Living the Ruff Life in New York City
When photographer Erik Carter first moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 2012, he noticed an unusual number of pit bulls in the area.
Performance
What Elektra Can Teach Us About Sorrow, Rage, and Denial
Ann Liv Young, a performance artist widely known for reinterpreting fairy tales with an edge, has reinvented Elektra.