In Brief
Newly Unearthed Feature Is Oldest Film with Black Cast
A 101-year-old film discovered by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is the oldest known feature film starring a cast of black actors.
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Why Artworks Are Like People
Ever since critic and theorist Walter Benjamin penned his landmark essay in 1936, it's been accepted as a kind of common wisdom that the aura of the artwork has withered in the (never-ending) age of mechanical reproduction. But a new study suggests the aura hasn't vanished entirely yet, and perhaps
Opinion
Oscar Murillo Made His Collector Cry
In a dispatch this weekend appearing in Artforum's usually stultifying Scene & Herd blog, it was reported that Oscar Murillo had carried out an intriguing intervention at a party hosted by the collector Frances Reynolds.
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ArtRx LA
This week, we have artistic interventions in a classic Arts & Crafts house, jazzy mid-century animation, a dark picnic in Silverlake, and artist talks.
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in Denver, Los Angeles. San Francisco, and Sarasota, Florida.
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Of All Stripes: Designing the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
Designer Deborah Sussman — with her husband, architect Paul Prejza — colored the city with environmental graphics that buoyantly exuded the hues of the diverse cultures in LA.
Interview
A Talk With Christopher Kardambikis, Artist's Book Enthusiast
Every great museum has at least a few vitrines dedicated to the remarkable object that is the artist's book.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, don't forget about Queens, discuss the intersection of art and science, LMCC open studios sound great, site-specific performance at the Socrates Sculpture Park, a discussion about Brutalism in Williamsburg, and, most importantly, the New York Art Book Fair opens!
Books
Photographing a 21st-Century Landscape When the Land Itself Is Disappearing
There's never been much of a unified scene when it comes to capturing landscapes in art, but maybe more even than before artists are very experimental with how to show a stretch of space.
Performance
When Drag Queens Crowd Surf
PORTLAND, Oregon — Pepper Pepper went crowd surfing at her recent drag ball. Declaring to the crowd that it was all about collectivism, she dove out into the sea of hands with a large set of balloons attached to her back.
Opinion
Do Mexican Drug Lords Buy Art?
Art gallerists in Mexico are blaming slow business on an anti–money laundering law targeting drug lords, reports the Washington Post.
In Brief
Jean Nouvel Reveals Designs for Huge Chinese National Art Museum
Architect Jean Nouvel has unveiled his plans for the new National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), a massive structure measuring 130,000 square meters (1,399,308 square feet) — eight times the size of the current NAMOC, and more than double that of the Louvre.