Art
Epic Done Right: Anselm Kiefer in London
LONDON — Anselm Kiefer’s retrospective comes at an odd cultural moment.
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Untitled Makes the Gradient in Miami
MIAMI BEACH — The Untitled art fair may take place in a stark white tent with a hot pink slice cut into it, but the work inside is every color of the rainbow. In fact, "rainbow" is the most common palette at the fair this year: every other booth seems to feature at least one work in which yellow shi
Interview
With Tech, Satisfying a Need for Artistic Speed
BRIGHTON, UK — Attempting an interview with Chicks on Speed is a logistical challenge, as members of the art and music collective are dispersed around the world.
Art
A Man's Portraits Over 60 Years, Set Against the Backdrop of a Changing China
In 2007, Chinese photography collector Tong Bingxue received a phone call from a man seeking an appraisal for a recently purchased book of photo portraits. As Bingxue recounts in A Life in Portraits, a quick examination of the book revealed a startlingly unique, unified subject: one man’s yearly por
Art
Encountering Fluid Fractals in Hanoi
HANOI — On a recent visit, I asked everyone I met who was remotely involved in Hanoi’s contemporary art scene what the must-see experimental spaces were. Nhà Sàn Collective topped almost every list.
Art
What Social Media Tells Us About the Venice Architecture Biennale
How do you determine the success of an exhibition — by the number of visitors, the tenor of their reactions, or some other gauge? That's the question Maria Novozhilova tackles in her assessment of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, which ended late last month.
Art
"Wrapped Terracotta Neck-amphora (Storage Jar)" by Clement Valla
"Wrapped Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)" (2014) is a sculpture that is neither an object nor an image.
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Canada Denies Travel Visa for Afghan Artist
The Canadian government has denied the Afghan artist Hanifa Alizada a visa to travel to the country, where she was due to speak and show her work at "The Shrinking World of Photography" symposium next month.
Art
ArtRx LA
This week, there's an indie comics fest, a holiday art sale, a magazine benefit party, an invitation to create an object of desire, and two film screenings, including Warhol's 8-hour static-shot masterpiece, Empire.
Performance
A Live Documentary Measures Humanity by Its Extremes
In his newest live documentary, The Measure of All Things, filmmaker Sam Green ponders why we're obsessed with the extremes of accomplishment, no matter how obscure or mundane they actually are.
In Brief
Did Putin Use a Picasso from the Hermitage as a World Cup Bribe?
Did Valdimir Putin get an assist from Pablo Picasso toward his goal of bringing the 2018 World Cup competition to Russia? According to a British report that has just been made public, former soccer star, UEFA president, and FIFA executive member Michel Platini received a Picasso painting as a bribe
News
City Councilmen Cry "Porn" Over Pregnant Nude at MOCA Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida, may be stuck in the 19th century, because an image of a reclining, nude woman on view at a local museum has local politicians hot and bothered.