Art
Moving Through Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
PARIS — I tend to prefer my European gesamtkunstwerk interior spaces lush, flamboyantly mannerist, funny, obscurantist, or noisy.
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Books
The Existential Adventures of a Daredevil Escape Artist
Years before NYC-based artist and writer Paul Pope was garnering Eisner Awards for an intricate, boundary-challenging Batman series, he was making a name for himself working at a Japanese comics publisher. At night, however, Pope was crafting the story of how a circus’s sinewy escape artist earns hi
Comics
Do Artists Need Silence?
Distractions are everywhere. How do you respond?
Art
Cinema as a Ruin in Madrid
MADRID — The moving image, now at the center stage of contemporary art, not only as video and film but as ‘artists’ cinema,’ was once a fringe movement at a time when recorded tapes were difficult to manipulate and even more difficult to preserve so that many of those early works are now irretrievab
In Brief
A New Service Promises an Artistic Afterlife
In search of the next Vivian Maier? Comb through garage sales no further.
Art
In Times Square, Trading Shares of Chinese Art
"You ever heard of Bitcoin?," John Wallace asks, pointing to his companion. "You're looking at it."
In Brief
French Food Blogger Fined $3,400 for Bad Review
A French court has ordered a blogger to pay €2,500 (~$3,380) for writing a negative review of a restaurant, Eater reported.
Film
A Secret Film Smuggled Out into the World
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi continues to make movies. Caged in his perverse, Kafkaesque "larger prison," Panahi faces a 20-year ban by the Iranian government on filmmaking, international travel, and interviews.
Opinion
Patrimony Acrimony: Italy Turns to Private Funding for Restoration
Here in the United States, our cultural heritage is something we care about, but funding it is another story. In Italy, it's long been the case idea that the government mostly pays to maintain cultural heritage, but as the state continues to struggle financially, officials are turning more and more
Art
Unpacking Willard Boepple's Monoprints
Willard Boepple's solo show of monoprints at Lori Bookstein Fine Art opens with one of the artist's mounted resin works, "Ways and Means" (2002), a purple structure of overlapping translucent geometric forms.
Art
Despite Dementia, a Life of Art Continues to Thrive
BIRMINGHAM, UK — Britain’s second city is arguably its most ethnically diverse. In a recent search for Birmingham’s most archetypal family, led by Turner-Prize winner Gillian Wearing, the winners were two mixed-race, single parent sisters.
Art
ArtRx LA
This week in LA, look forward to the West Coast premiere of a semi-autobiographical theater performance, a show centered on the visual art of the tarot card, and a series of shorts by a filmmaker set on bringing back lost or destroyed movies.