Performance
A Brooklyn-Born Street Dance Goes Uptown, with Mixed Results
How do you take a form of street dance and bring it, for the first time, to the theatrical stage — and not just any stage, but a 160-foot-long one?
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In Brief
Someone Is Investigating a Professor and Reporter for Being Critical of Gulf Labor Conditions
A mysterious investigation against New York University (NYU) professor Andrew Ross and New York Times reporter Ariel Kaminer is underway, the Times reported.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Long lost "computer opera" by Nam June Paik discovered, Barcelona museum director quits amid controversy, and the Kiev Biennale canceled.
Opinion
False Facts and Anti-Curator Hysterics Won't Fix the Museum of Modern Art
I generally stay out of public arguments about the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). I feel too close, yet I'm not an insider.
Interview
Art for the Discerning Drone
This summer the Knockdown Center, the sprawling arts space in Maspeth, Queens, will host a drone obstacle course consisting entirely of specially commissioned sculptures.
Art
Choreographing a Response to Climate Change
Dancing about climate change makes about as much sense as ... painting Op art compositions to give stock tips. Or crafting a steel sculpture that instructs viewers how to renew their driver's licenses. Or composing an opera to review a restaurant.
Books
The Sibling Rivalry that Shaped Diane Arbus's Vision
In Silent Dialogues, art historian Alexander Nemerov, son of former US Poet Laureate Howard Nemerov and nephew of Diane Arbus, traces his father’s evolving attitudes toward photography and his sister's work in particular.
Art
Sum of the Arts
Age of the mummified monk long forgotten inside a 1,000-year-old gilded statue, which Chinese villagers now want restituted from a Dutch private collector = 30–40
News
Toronto University Acquires Berenice Abbott Archive
Berenice Abbott was best known for being New York City's official photographer during the Great Depression, though she actually explored a panoply of subjects during her six-decade-long career.
Art
Finding People in Los Angeles's Urban Sprawl
The photographer Patrick Gookin recently explored the psychological ramifications of car culture in a series called LA by Car.
Art
A Gutai Painter Finally Has His Moment in the West
Much attention is being focused on the paintings of the late Japanese Gutai painter and Tendai monk, Kazuo Shiraga (1924–2008), who for years has been collected throughout Europe, even as he has been virtually ignored in the United States.
Art
Painting with Toxic Sludge
To experiment with an alternative method for remediation, a scientist and an artist are collaborating on turning the acid runoff from Ohio's abandoned coal mines into pigments.