Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (June 2014, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of First Aid Kit, EMA, How to Dress Well, and Jack White.
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Art
Have a Nice Day: Jeff Koons and the End of Art
Gleaming in the ghost-light of fluorescent tubes, the vitrine-encased vacuum cleaners that open the Whitney Museum’s Jeff Koons retrospective are nothing short of spectacular. The rest of the work, however, with few exceptions, reveals itself to be as thin, puerile and derivative as the artist’s har
Art
A Double Rainbow for Pride at a Brooklyn Hotel
Just in time for this weekend's NYC Pride celebration, which culminates in the annual Pride Parade on Sunday, two gay pop-cultural icons have appeared in the lobby of the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg.
Books
The Lost Beauty of Book Endpapers
Bookbinding developed gradually, with the availability of materials and prevailing tastes dictating the details. One of the more overlooked aspects of book design was the creation of endpapers, when what was long a blank space or slice of vellum was replaced by exuberant patterns.
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News
Artist Offers Cage Stay on Airbnb [UPDATED]
You can rent all types of living accommodations on Airbnb: private rooms, shared apartments, floors in houses ... and now, a cage. Courtesy of artist Miao Jiaxin.
Art
Armando Mariño's Winter Thaw
If Armando Mariño's earlier art looked at the outside world with a critical postcolonial eye, his recent paintings probe visceral states of being tinted by melancholy and framed by a directness that feels intimate.
Performance
A Dance of Digital Shadows
Technologies that didn't exist 10 years are opening up fresh possibilities for choreographers and their collaborators. Interactive designer Matt Romein's recent collaborative presentation with choreographer Sophie Sotsky harnessed new developments in motion-capture technology, video programming lang
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Art Movements
Detroit "grand bargain" signed into law, UNESCO names 26 new World Heritage sites, Chicago gets architecture biennial, Brooklyn Museum appoints first female board chair, and more from the week in art news.
Art
From Gemstones to Arsenic: How the Development of Pigment Colored Art
Monet and Renoir drenched their canvases in colors that until that point had been prohibitively expensive for most artists, yet during their lifetimes became available synthetically in mass production.
Opinion
Art Center's Closure Bodes Ill for Qatar
With the Qatar Museums Authority's focus on the international stage and the general public’s lack of interest, who will support the artists in Qatar who have not yet — and likely never will — achieve such fame? That is a question that is difficult to answer without the Katara Art Center.
Art
Wandering Through the Refuse
CHICAGO — Judith Mullen’s new work consists of sculptures and paintings that look like detritus, like the sort of thing that accumulates in rivers or forest floors after heavy storms: swirls of leaves, bark, wood chips, pine needles, things discarded by humans, whipped together by wind and rain to f
Art
Painting the Wilderness of Artistic Imagination
Demonstrating formal finesse, visual wit and disarmingly direct technique, the recent paintings of Olive Ayhens are a pleasure to behold.