Art
ArtRx LA
This week, there are talks with Thomas Demand and Lorraine O'Grady, an art tour of Hollywood, a show of late work by Mr. Turner opens, and much more!
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Books
Mapplethorpe's Other Man
In Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, Philip Gefter’s new biography of collector, curator, and market force Sam Wagstaff, the author argues that it was not only his subject’s life that was transformed by his relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: Cops don't care for anti-cop mural, misattribution embarrasses Toronto art detectives, and an ice sculpture smasher is on the loose.
Art
The Intimate Dynamics of a Two-Person, One-Couple Show
SAN FRANCISCO — To be bound, inextricably, to another person throughout time.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, the New Museum Triennial opens, there's a performance and music night at Panoply, a digital book talk at Columbia, Flux counterfeits cash, Michael Snow has a group show, and more.
Art
Navigating Through a Sea of Pink
After British photographer Kirsty Mackay gave birth to her first daughter in 2006, she found her life inundated by pink.
Art
Four Million Images from the World's Endangered Archives
Despite the vast and growing resources available online, much of the world's knowledge and history remains ephemeral and under threat of disappearance.
Opinion
The Hypocrisy of the Artistic and Critical Left
It’s time for us to ask why the industries with some of the loftiest ideals and the most vocal commitments to progressivism still far so far short of reasonable expectations.
Art
Politics and a Performer Hidden Inside a Gallery's Walls
CHICAGO — A gallery at the Chicago Artists Coalition currently holds more than just a few pieces of art.
Opinion
Columbia Students Can Paint, Watch TED Talks to Meet Sexual Respect Requirement
In the wake of a wave of protests over the school's mishandling of sexual assault cases, Columbia University recently unveiled a new Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative.
In Brief
Smashed Conceptual Art Water Fountain Will Flow Again
Michael Asher's understated drinking fountain sculpture on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus was recently destroyed by a masked vandal, but officials at the school plan to rebuild it.
In Brief
Rare Pearl Fished Out of Seafood Stew Heads to Auction
A jelly bean–size pearl that could have broken a Massachusetts cop's teeth when it turned up in his seafood stew could break records when it heads to auction next month.