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This week, a Rothko sells for ~$150 million, NASA's moon photos, identity of Jack the Ripper uncovered, violence of architecture, art institutions and imperialism, screenshots as POV, and more.

Opinion

Weekend Words: Cloud

Newsweek reported this week that the use of the Cloud has grown so much in recent years that "according to Greenpeace, if this ‘collective cloud’ were a single country, it would rank sixth in the world, in terms of energy consumption, behind only Russia, India, Japan, the U.S. and China, in that ord

Interview

John Yau and Justine Kurland Discuss the Relationship of Photography, Poetry, and Narrative

The following email exchange with the photographer Justine Kurland focuses on her exhibition, Sincere Auto Care, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, which is accompanied by a self-published book with the same title.

Art

The Improvised Body: The Reemergence of Senga Nengudi

The artist Senga Nengudi was recently honored with dual retrospectives of her work at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art and RedLine Gallery. The MCA featured the black and brown pantyhose of her long-running R.S.V.P. series, which was stretched, contorted, and knotted into abstract echoes of every

Art

In Search of Intimacy: Fall Museum Shows in New York

Skimming through various museum sites for their fall schedules, the first thing that caught my eye was a notice for The Art of the Chinese Album at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

News

Three Afghani Masterpieces Face Same Threats, Different Futures

Three architectural wonders from 12th century Afghanistan are currently in danger of collapse: the minaret of Jam in Ghur province and the two "Victory Towers" in Ghazni

Interview

With Lincoln Center Retrospective, John Waters Runs Deep

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is honoring filmmaker John Waters with the first retrospective of his films in the United States. Over the course of ten days, they’ll be screening all twelve of his feature films and the early underground shorts he directed and shot financed by his father.

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Art Movements

This week in art news: a giant hippo has taken over the Thames river, three publications have been banned in Egypt, and a leaky hose pipe has renewed the archaeological debate regarding Stonehenge.

Art

Lamenting Images: 'New Ghost Stories' at Palais de Tokyo

PARIS — "Museum and mausoleum are connected by more than phonetic association," the theorist and critic Theodor Adorno wrote in 1953. At the Palais de Tokyo, the sepulchral New Ghost Stories (Nouvelles Histoires de Fantômes) revisits this relationship by addressing the museum exhibition in the age o

Opinion

No, Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Are Not Art [UPDATED]

In a shameless bid for attention and relevance, and probably money, Cory Allen Contemporary Art (CACA) in St. Petersburg, Florida, has announced that it will show leaked nude images of actress Jennifer Lawrence and supermodel Kate Upton as appropriated artworks by an LA artist who goes by the name o

News

Out, Damned "Spot"! Guerilla Work Dogs Canine-Killing Artist [UPDATE 2]

A guerilla installation critiquing the artist Tom Otterness's 1977 killing of an adopted dog has appeared in the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue subway station, Gothamist reported.

Art

In Survey of Southern Art, Place Is the Space

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee — Jiha Moon was one of several artists the critic John Yau would like to have seen at the Whitney Biennial this year and didn’t.