Art
The Maximalist World of a Collective Art Dream
Stepping into the fantastical world of I won’t wait for grey hairs and worldly cares to soften my views is like going through a portal, entering a delirious space of a collective dream.
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Art
Sum of the Arts
Number of Water Lilies paintings destroyed by Monet just before a 1908 exhibition = 15
Interview
Artist Confronts Our Fear of Strangers with Intimate Daily Gestures
George Ferrandi rides the subway. As passengers push and squeeze and avert their eyes, Ferrandi relaxes her joints and muscles, relinquishing any discomfort or fear that might linger in her posture.
Art
Astrological Aesthetics: June 2015 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
News
Tomb-Raiding Archaeologists Arrested in Chinese Antiquities Trafficking Bust
Four archaeologists were among nearly 200 people from six Chinese provinces recently arrested for raiding ancient tombs and selling an estimated $80 million worth of antiquities on the black market, the Beijing Times reported.
News
Threatened LA Googie Landmark Is Saved
LOS ANGELES — Architectural preservationists won a major victory last week, when the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to designate Norms La Cienega as a Historic-Cultural Monument.
Art
How the Space Race Altered Art in the Americas
Space exploration and the science fiction imagination of alien encounters out in the stars reached their peak of optimistic possibility between the 1940s and 1970s, culminating with the first moon landing in 1969.
Art
Boston Art Prize Disappoints by Snubbing Local Artists
BOSTON — There is no actual historical evidence to support the idea that Jesús Malverde ever existed, and stories of Mexico’s “Robin Hood-like bandit” seem likely to have been fabricated over time, embellished, and then mainlined directly into the central nervous system of narco-culture thug life.
Art
A Novel Comes to Life as a Warped Sculptural Wonderland
MINNEAPOLIS — At the beginning of next month, Chris Larson’s installation at the Soap Factory will serve as a set for an original opera composed by Anthony Gatto, based on Flannery O’Connor’s novel Wise Blood.
Announcement
The Hollows Artspace Celebrates Its First Year with 'Auto-Chemistry,' Opening June 3
The Hollows Artspace — founded in October 2014 in Bushwick, Brooklyn — will open its third exhibition on Wednesday, June 3, from 6 to 10pm.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6ODQxMDAsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyNTQyNzgsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6ODg0OTQ1LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjkyODI1NSwiZmwiOjYwNTUxOSwiaXAiOi
Opinion
Learn to Love Your Meat Before You Meet Your Love
Raw meat as a metaphoric vessel for sensuality and sex is nothing new.
Art
Reframing Ivory Coast's Long-Anonymous Master Sculptors
PARIS — One can easily mistake ghosts of the past for the modern. Most of us have only a vague and superficial idea that West African sculpture’s symbolic force has an crucial place in the history of Modern Art.