Opinion
Publicity Splash: Ai Weiwei Splatters Designer Clothes for Fashion Magazine
Don’t ever trust your possessions with Ai Weiwei.
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Activists Picket Guggenheim Gala over Labor Abuses
Amid a phalanx of black-clad attendants, security, and ushers, the Guggenheim Museum welcomed guests to its annual International Gala. But not all who landed at the November 6 event were invited.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Selected artifacts from the British Museum are available to print in 3D, North Korea's UK embassy opened its first-ever art exhibition, and a rehearing on the California Resale Royalty Act is to be held on December 15.
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Judge Approves Historic Detroit Bankruptcy Plan, Protecting Its Museum
Judge Steven Rhodes approved Detroit's bankruptcy plan today, allowing the city to move out of insolvency in the coming weeks and slowly towards financial independence. Rhodes called the plan "fair and feasible," the Detroit Free Press reports, "providing the legal authority for the city to slash mo
Art
Get Your Fix of a Sinister Post-Human Future
Artist Saya Woolfalk has created a little utopian hive of serenity in the large front gallery of the Smack Mellon in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
Performance
Domestic Workers Air Their Dirty Laundry Onstage
Laudicieia Calixto and Rita Oliveira enter the space of the Abrons Arts Center’s Experimental Theater and find themselves in a somewhat familiar scene: a slightly cluttered apartment, littered with fancy gowns, full-length mirror, desk, phone, assorted wigs.
In Brief
Finally, an App for Transcribing Medieval Manuscripts
A new app allows medievalists, aspiring medievalists, or medievally-minded scriveners to try their hand at transcribing 26 manuscripts on their smartphones.
Art
Mixing Classical and Gay Male Teen Desire
LONDON — In the Natural History, Pliny the Elder discusses the origins of sculpture by telling the story of Butades of Corinth, the first Greek modeler of clay.
Books
The Graphics of the Great War in France
More than any conflict before it, World War I was a visual battle. Propaganda proliferated across the fronts, and magazines, newspapers, photography, early films, and even fashion and children's books were involved in a rally of imagery on a large scale.
Art
An Alternative to the Art Fair Marathon
I didn't expect to say this, but Independent Projects is a lovely fair. Started by the creators of the Independent, Armory Week's alterna-fair, and taking place in the same location, the former Dia Art Foundation building on West 22nd Street in Chelsea, Independent Projects simultaneously builds on
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St. Louis Museum Scores Slam Dunk with $50M Art Gift
The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) has received a gift of 225 artworks, worth upward of $50 million, from the collection of the late Edith Spink and Charles Claude Johnson Spink, who died in 2011 and 1992, respectively.
Comics
Art and Friends Don't Mix
Friends are the worst at helping you make art.