News
Swiss City Grooms for First Nude Public Performance Art Festival
On August 21, the world's first official, naked public performance art festival will occur in the streets of Biel, Switzerland, featuring projects from 18 international artists.
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Art
Fabrics Stained with Colonial Blues
CHICAGO — It is the duality of indigo's beauty and its intimate connection with human degradation that artist Jovencio de la Paz explores in his current exhibition of batik works.
News
Wells Fargo Moves to Sell Nonprofit Art Space’s Home Out from Under It
After supporting and promoting local artists' work for over 54 years, a nonprofit contemporary art center in a converted Elizabethan-style home in New Haven, Connecticut, will likely shut down this week.
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The Propeller Group’s ‘A Universe of Collisions,’ the Final Show at Grand Arts, Opens August 7
The Propeller Group faced impossibly long odds from the outset of A Universe of Collisions. Inspired by a rare artifact from the American Civil War — opposing bullets, conjoined mid-air — the Vietnam-based collective encountered immense tactical challenges in trying to replicate it. At the same time, the group was
Art
An Exhibition of Fractured and Mended Art
The conservation of artifacts already in museum care is highlighted more often than the repairs creators make to their own objects.
Comics
Different Dreams for Different Decades
Dreams have a tendency to change over the years.
News
Sleek New Short by the FBI Warns of Chinese Espionage
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has inspired countless hours of television and cinema, from X-Files to Silence of the Lambs.
Art
Dieter Roth’s Chaotic and Cacophonous Gesamtkunstwerk
BERLIN — The exhibition And away with the minutes spins like a rococo confection around the prolific noise music projects of the legendary and influential German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, commercializing museums, map of literary road trips, designing masculinity, McDonald's in Alaska, new Tokyo Olympic logo, John Waters says don't smoke, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Cheat
On Wednesday, Reuters reported that hackers have threatened to expose the identities of thousands of users at the adultery website Ashley Madison, whose slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair” — a breach that “could be disastrous for one whose business model is based on complete confidentially.”
Music
Horses, Lake, Trees, Sweat, Hotel, Sun, Bed, Girl, Phone, Birds, Film, Ski Town, Yard, Mountains, Road, Dandelions, Sun Kil Moon
From chirpy beginning to gloomy end, the new Sun Kil Moon album portrays a man in love with the concrete noun.
Art
Stanley Whitney Reclaims His History
Happily, for those who are curious about what came next in Whitney’s evolution, they need only to go uptown and see the artist’s first museum exhibition in New York, Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange at the Studio Museum in Harlem, which contains a selection of twenty-nine paintings and works on pap