In Brief
Dutch Pranksters Punk Museumgoers with IKEA Art
In a playful prank on some art viewers, a roughly €10 work of IKEA art was placed in the galleries of the Museum Arnhem in the Netherlands, where visitors bestowed praise on the impostor.
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Performance
A Mashup of Ballet and Postmodern Dance
Dance is a curious thing: an art form that both defies and relies on genre distinctions.
Art
Looking for Origins of Arab Modernism in Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — The United Arab Emirates may dominate the popular image of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries today, but for most of the 20th century the region's poster child for oil-fueled prosperity and cosmopolitan aspiration was Kuwait.
Art
A Tomb for the Plastic Ghosts We Leave Behind
Over seven months, artist Ian Trask collected thousands of molded blister packs destined for the landfill and transformed the plastic into a cross between a temple and tomb of consumerism.
Art
A Rubens Exhibition That's All Fat, No Muscle
LONDON — The term “blockbuster” is defined by the equation: major name or subject + major loans = major ticket sales.
Art
Richest Gathering of Hellenistic Bronzes in Centuries Goes on Tour
In Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, opened last week at Florence's Palazzo Strozzi, more Greek bronzes are assembled than ever before in the modern age.
Comics
How to Enjoy the World
... without trying too hard.
Art
A Video Game to Ruin the World and Fill Swiss Bank Accounts
At the 2015 IndieCade East hosted last month by the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, Seth Alter of Subaltern Games said in a talk that he sets out to examine the problem of a genre and then tries "to subvert it and make something new with its existing systems."
News
Syrian Video Artists Risk Their Lives to Laugh at ISIS
A bearded man wearing sunglasses and a flak jacket sits on the ground beside a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a pro-Assad song plays on the radio. He lifts up the lid of a cooking pot, and a genie emerges.
Art
Competing Views of World War I: Eyewitness and Editorialized
A current exhibition at the Getty Research Institute selects visuals from World War I to illustrate how starkly the era's propaganda contrasted with the images of the conflict created by artist soldiers.
News
As Professor Is Denied Entry, NYU Abu Dhabi Faces New Pressure to Evolve
ABU DHABI, UAE — This week the New York Times reported that New York University (NYU) professor Andrew Ross was denied permission to visit the United Arab Emirates after publishing numerous articles critical of the labor conditions in the region.
Interview
A Portable Museum Makes Art on the Go
LONDON — Dr. Brad Butler, radical filmmaker, contemporary artist, and international traveller, is bantering with the down-to-earth staff of a bustling London café.