Opinion
Required Reading
This week, artists and drones, archiving the web, Russian art manifestos, the lies of American Sniper, modern life, and more.
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Opinion
Weekend Words: Sweat
On Tuesday, Hyperallergic's Benjamin Sutton reported that a civil court in Antwerp has convicted Luc Tuymans of copyright infringement for appropriating an image by photojournalist Katrijn Van Giel for his painting, “A Belgian Politician” (2011).
Art
Weekend Studio Visit: Louise Belcourt in Williamsburg, New York
Despite the hue and cry about zombie formalism, there is a lot of very good painting going on these days.
Music
Fifty Shades of Lana Del Rey
For many, the mere existence of Lizzie Grant and her alter ego Lana Del Rey serves as a cold slap in the face to the big-budget feminist empowerment campaign enacted by even richer and more famous people like Beyoncé and Lady Gaga.
Art
From the Deep South, an Overlooked Chapter in Art History
ATLANTA — Is Bill Arnett enjoying the last laugh?
Art
Shadow and Substance: Patrick Killoran’s Faustian Bargain
Broadly embracing the Minimal, the Conceptual, and the Relational, Patrick Killoran’s solo exhibition at Studio 10 zeroes in on the unlikeliest of subjects — contract law — with an off-kilter braininess that turns each piece into a game of mental catch-up.
Opinion
Artists Confront the Uncomfortable Legacy of Lenin
This week, two men made headlines when they doused the tomb of the Soviet Union's first leader Vladimir Lenin with holy water while reportedly shouting "Rise up and leave!"
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: The Hergé Museum cancels its Charlie Hebdo exhibition, Sotheby's and Christie's reported record sales, and an artist hired stuntmen to destroy his exhibition.
News
Women Excluded from Disciplines That Prize “Raw Intellectual Talent,” Study Finds
The problem, which we often write off to the sorts of research agendas women have historically been encouraged to pursue (namely, non-scientific ones), may not be as straightforward as we tend to believe.
Opinion
Liveblogging 'The Artist as Debtor' Conference
We're at Cooper Union today to liveblog the 'The Artist as Debtor: A Conference about the Work of Artists in the Age of Speculative Capitalism' event.
Interview
A New Apartment Gallery Cultivates Community in Brooklyn
Last month a new gallery opened in Greenpoint, far from the picturesque industrial buildings on the East River waterfront that have long housed the inner circle of the neighborhood's gallery scene.
Opinion
Luc Tuymans Case Illustrates the Failure of Europe's Copyright Laws
LONDON — Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, known for his paintings that rework existing photographic source material, has been found guilty of plagiarism in a European court for using a copyrighted photograph as the inspiration for an artwork.