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Required Reading
This week, the death of the US dance critic, Black Lives Matter at the Venice Biennale, James Baldwin's FBI file, "Happy Birthday"'s copyright shenanigans, and more.
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Opinion
Weekend Words: Currency
China weakened its currency, the renminbi, several days in a row this week, raising fears that the country’s massive economy may be in deep trouble.
Art
Artists of the Dark: “Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860–1960”
Nighttime darkness compresses space and alters colors, making ordinary places both more terrifying and more freeing, changing the social dynamic of those who walk in them.
Poetry
The Drama in the Everyday: Bernadette Mayer's Early Poems
I first began reading the works of Bernadette Mayer in 1975 or 1976, contemporaneous with their publications. While I didn’t realize it at the time, Mayer wroten them in her late 20s and early 30s, quite close to my own age.
Art
Failing Better: Erroneous Art at Lisa Cooley
There’s a bit of curatorial sleight-of-hand in I Dropped the Lemon Tart, the summer show at Lisa Cooley on the Lower East Side. The title refers to a real-life mishap in a restaurant kitchen where imminent culinary fiasco turned into a triumph of pluck and invention.
Art
Tales from the Darkside: Narrative Drawings at the Hunterdon Art Museum
CLINTON, NJ — To the Best of My Recollection is a rich, nasty and spirited show of works on paper by four Brooklyn-based artists in one of the most idyllic spots in western New Jersey.
Art
Brothels, Artists, and Exorbitant Real Estate on One NYC Block
One block of New York City's Soho has had numerous identities over the past four centuries.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: the FBI revealed that the suspects in the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist are dead, the Knoedler Gallery settled three of the 10 lawsuits stemming from its forgery fiasco, and Patti Smith's 2010 memoir Just Kids will become a television series.
Art
The Young Lords’ Radical Agenda and the Problems that Persist
The exhibit aims to give local and global context for Young Lords’s activism while situating the social conflicts they addressed in ongoing struggles.
News
Three Years After Sandy, South Street Seaport Gets $10.4 Million from FEMA
This week the South Street Seaport got an essential boost.
In Brief
Chicago Mayor Flattered, Kapoor Even Madder, as “Cloud Gate”-Gate Continues
Officials in Karamay, China, have not announced plans to remove a blatant copy of Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" that opens to the public this month, which means "Cloud Gate"–gate is far from over.
Art
A Group Show Where Criticism Is Process
DETROIT — There seem to be two prevailing schools of thought among artists about process.