In Brief
Foul Weather Foils Floating Fowl Facsimile
A Chinese company is on the hunt for the world's largest rubber duck, last seen Wednesday floating on a river in southwest China, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Art
The Unstable Art of Pattern Recognition
Fixed Unknowns, the current exhibition on the upper level of Taymour Grahne Gallery, breeds constant questioning of the image before the eyes.
Art
The Vivian Maier "Discovery" Is More Complicated Than We Thought
Finding Vivian Maier, the documentary about the nanny who's gained incredible posthumous fame for her previously unseen work as a photographer, was released this past weekend in the UK. But in addition to garnering reviews, it's also bringing a longstanding but little-covered conflict over Maier's w
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Artist Royalties Bill Has 16 Congressional Co-Sponsors
The American Royalties Too (ART) Act calls for the return of 5 percent of a work's resale value to its maker if it sells at auction for over $5,000, with royalties capped at $35,000.
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Daniel Buren's Colorful Labyrinth in Mexico
You don't have to look far in the art world to find something by Daniel Buren, the 76-year-old Frenchman best known for championing the ordinary stripe. A new work in Guadalajara, Mexico, takes that one step further.
Art
Resisting the Russian Pull: Armenian Artists Speak Out
YEREVAN, Armenia — The Russians are not just trying to exert themselves in Ukraine; they are actively staking claims to their irredenta throughout their former territories. The opposition in Armenia has lacked the drama and intensity of the resistance in Ukraine and Georgia, but there is a small art
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Happy Birthday, Marshall McLuhan
Today would have been Marshall McLuhan's 103rd birthday.
Comics
An Artist's Natural Habitat
I wanted to pretend I was a naturalist for the day.
Art
The Values of Louise Lawler
At the core of artist Louise Lawler's work is the question of place, by which I don't mean simply a notion of geography, but also hierarchies.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a photojournalist on a beach in Gaza, a dog saves an artist's life, CalArts in the 1970s, Žižek plagiarizes from a white supremacists, in defense of appropriation, post-Murakami Japanese art, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Rain
By mid-July, more rain has fallen in the New York region (5.19 inches) than the typical average for the entire month (4.6 inches).
Poetry
Poem as Prayer: Mark Wunderlich's "The Earth Avails"
Much of Mark Wunderlich’s decidedly sincere and dexterous new book The Earth Avails derives, as well as extrapolates from a little leather volume of common prayers, a treasury of highly particular, utilitarian 19th-century Protestant folk devotionals. Not only has he carefully reconstituted these id