Art
7 Contemporary Takes on Marsden Hartley
OK, full disclosure: I have never been a huge Marsden Hartley fan.
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In Brief
Envisioning Eco-Friendly Architecture in Paris
Paris City Hall commissioned Vincent Callebaut Architectures to design a series of environmentally beneficial buildings.
Art
Billboard Art Project Sets Off Terrorism Scare Near US/Mexico Border
A series of ten billboards erected along Interstate 10 in southern New Mexico by the art organization Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) has provoked suspicion, anxiety, and even outright antagonism.
Art
A Brief Look at 2015 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts
The youngest of the three Oscar shorts categories, documentary shorts are both the vigorous upstarts and the weary middle-agers, questioning themselves and their creative vision in a productive midlife crisis.
Art
The 6 Issues That Will Guide the Future of Museums
A new report from the Center for the Future of Museums identifies six trends that will shape the ways institutions do business, engage viewers, handle their collections, and renovate their buildings in the years and decades to come.
News
Dutch Soccer Hooligans Damage Historic Bernini Fountain in Rome
Dutch soccer fans wreaked havoc on Rome over the past two days, damaging a 17th-century fountain designed by Bernini and leaving the city's historic center strewn with trash.
Art
An Exhibition Brings Us Face to Face with the War on Terror
LONDON — Outside The Mosaic Rooms, a small gallery and cultural center in Kensington, a red and white-striped air sock hangs improbably from the otherwise uniform stone façade.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: The sale of Ai Weiwei's gold-plated zodiac sculptures sets a new auction record for the artist, an artist charged with robbing a bank may get a museum exhibition, and Manhattan's so-called "Flower District" is the new Chelsea ... apparently.
Books
A Comic Book that Reads Like Sheet Music
Richard Kraft's Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera explodes off the page.
Interview
Christy Rupp on Rats, Geese, and the Ecology of Public Art
Christy Rupp burst onto the New York art scene with "Rat Patrol," a street art response to the sanitation strike of 1979.
Comics
The Questions that Never Go Away
There's always going to be those questions.
In Brief
When Arty Music Videos Rip Off Artists
Another day, another artist's work is put to commercial use without permission.