Art
A Bloody Video Game Ode on a Grecian Urn
Apotheon brings the classical world of ancient Greek pottery to life as a full-length animated video game.
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Art
The New Museum's Triennial Surrounds the Audience with Too Much Art
The New Museum's third triennial, Surround Audience, is not nearly as immersive as its title suggests, and it sabotages many of the most conventional two-dimensional and sculptural works on view.
Art
The Fantastical Pulp Art of 1960s and '70s Mexico
The lurid art created for paperbacks in the 1960s and '70s includes a cat man superhero surrounded by feral felines, a woman fleeing a cop while cradling a piglet, and a blonde vixen looking back in shock as a skeleton delivers her a letter.
Performance
Laughing (and Crying, and Laughing Again) About Slavery
Aside from innovative and well-executed visual effects, what makes Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play An Octoroon so remarkable is the unceasing state of anxiety in which you’re held from start to finish.
Opinion
Microsoft HoloLens Renders the Internet in 3D
The cyberpunk literary tradition anticipated a series of real-world technical developments in which the digital and the spatial converge.
Announcement
The International Leadership Program in Visual Arts Management (ILPVAM): Two Intensive Modules in Bilbao and New York
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British Museum's Display of Aboriginal Artifacts Prompts New Demands for Their Return
There are only a handful of bark art examples from the Dja Dja Wurrung in Australia, and they're leagues away from their place of origin. A new exhibition of indigenous art of Australia at the British Museum, which holds these artifacts in their collections, will finally bring them back to the South
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ArtRx LA
This week, there are talks with Thomas Demand and Lorraine O'Grady, an art tour of Hollywood, a show of late work by Mr. Turner opens, and much more!
Books
Mapplethorpe's Other Man
In Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, Philip Gefter’s new biography of collector, curator, and market force Sam Wagstaff, the author argues that it was not only his subject’s life that was transformed by his relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: Cops don't care for anti-cop mural, misattribution embarrasses Toronto art detectives, and an ice sculpture smasher is on the loose.
Art
The Intimate Dynamics of a Two-Person, One-Couple Show
SAN FRANCISCO — To be bound, inextricably, to another person throughout time.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, the New Museum Triennial opens, there's a performance and music night at Panoply, a digital book talk at Columbia, Flux counterfeits cash, Michael Snow has a group show, and more.