Opinion
Weekend Words: Anchor
This week, two TV news anchors are going away.
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Art
Failure as Success in Painting: Bram van Velde, the Invisible (Part 2)
The postwar art scene in Paris was dominated on one side by a disproportionate humanist optimism bent on reconnecting with the great French tradition of Cubism and Fauvism, as if nothing had happened in between.
Art
Failure as Success in Painting: Bram van Velde, the Invisible (Part 1)
Last summer, at the opening of his exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery, the painter James Bishop mentioned in passing his strong interest in Bram van Velde’s work.
Art
Al Taylor: Not Yet in from the Cold
New York’s art world institutions still haven’t recognized how good an artist Al Taylor was. They overlooked his work while he was alive, and seem hellbent on continuing that willful blindness now that he is dead.
Art
Five Musical Instruments of the Future
Instruments that translate electronic music into physical actions and acoustic instruments that sound as space-age as any synthesizer are just some of the 20 semi-finalists in the 2015 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.
In Brief
More Emojis = More Sex
The next time your parents and other denizens of the older generation criticize you for using too many emojis, you can scandalize them further by retorting that more emojis correlate with more sex.
Art
Excavating Environmental Politics from Pristine Paintings and Photos
Art with an environmentalist message can take very literal forms, from a chunk of Arctic ice kept frozen by solar power to a field of wheat planted in a bustling metropolis, but it can also come in the guise of elegant abstract paintings and digitally manipulated photographs.
Art
A Brief Look at the 2015 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts
Often lost amid the Oscar season hype parade, the Academy Award–nominated short films are the lagniappe of the affair, a little extra dose of movie popcorn to munch on and enjoy, even if you skip out on the actual award show.
Books
Tales of Japanese Spirits Give Form to Our Deepest Fears
Have you ever had a supernatural experience, a moment unexplained by reason or logic that left you feeling as if a mysterious force was present?
Art
Painting the Land Before Time: A Victorian Vision of Dinosaur Life
From 1805 to as recently as 2000, Princeton University exhibited one of the great college natural history collections, rivaling those of peers Harvard and Yale.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: A 6.5-ton ground-to-air missile was installed beside London's Hayward Gallery, an appellate court ruled in favor of the Met's "pay what you wish" policy, and a Jeff Koons exhibition was cancelled due to "a lack of funding."
Art
Lampooning the Art World, One Ad at a Time
I see Bailey's face most places now because I signed up for the You Museum — the "world's first and only personalized museum that's with you wherever you go."