Art
Urs Fischer’s “Big Clay #4”: The Most Expensive Turd in the Art Casino?
Looming over the pedestrians of midtown Manhattan is a monumental new work, “Big Clay #4” (2013–14) made by the Swiss artist Urs Fischer.
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Art
Loaded History: Marino Marini’s Armless Juggler
VATICAN CITY — Modern art has achieved a slightly higher profile at the Vatican Museum these days (relatively speaking, of course): among other offerings, the recently opened Borgia apartments are currently filled with sometimes ordinary, sometimes exceptional selections of mid-20th-century Italian
Art
Can an Algorithm Determine Art History's Most Creative Paintings?
At the end of the month Ahmed Elgammal and Babak Saleh, an associate professor and PhD candidate, respectively, in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, will present their paper "Quantifying Creativity in Art Networks" at the International Conference on Computational Creativity.
Performance
Dancing Out Our Inner Demons
For dancers, the body is a surrogate for concepts and a tool for arranging shapes in the air.
In Brief
Ford Foundation Refocuses Grant Giving to Fight Inequality
The Ford Foundation, the second-largest philanthropic foundation in the US, will restructure its grant-making program to focus entirely on fighting global inequality, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: CBC News host Evan Solomon was fired for secretly brokering art sales, MCA Australia cancelled its Marina Abramović retrospective, and the world's earliest known cello went on display at the Met Museum.
News
John Waters Tells Young Artists to "Wreck What Came Before"
"Today may be the last day of your juvenile delinquency, but it should also be the first day of your new adult disobedience," John Waters recently told the 2015 graduating class of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in his commencement speech.
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US House of Representatives Passes Controversial Art Protection Bill
On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would ensure that authorities cannot seize works of art brought into the United States for temporary display in cultural institutions — even if they're determined to have been stolen.
Art
Cloudy with a Chance of Abstraction: A Biennal for Weather Art
OKLAHOMA CITY — Beneath the tumultuous skies of Oklahoma, the National Weather Center (NWC) is hosting its second curated exhibition interpreting meteorological phenomena through art.
Books
Faced With Digital Ubiquity, Artists Still Cherish Crafting Materials
Postdigital Artisans: Craftsmanship with a New Aesthetic in Fashion, Art, Design, and Architecture, recently published by Frame Publishers, explores the works of 60 international artists working with or in response to the digital moment.
Books
The Promise of Glamor and Adventure in Mid-Century Airline Advertising
From the end of World War II to the 1970s, airline travel experienced a revolution in extended routes and better aircrafts.
Opinion
Stacked Boxes and BIG Statements in New Design for 2 World Trade Center
Bjarke Ingels revealed his proposal for 2 World Trade Center in an article for Wired on Tuesday. The final unbuilt plot at the hallowed New York City site — which had for a decade been reserved for a Norman Foster-designed scheme — may now give rise to a dramatically stepped, 1,340-foot glass tower.