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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

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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

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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.

Art

Artifice, Authorship, and the History of Photography

Laura Larson’s current show of photographs at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. feels like a small museum retrospective. The elegantly installed exhibition explores the artist’s career over a twenty-year period, from 1992 to 2012.

Art

In the Internet Archive's Millions of Public-Domain Images, a Guide to Museum History

The Internet Archive is using public domain digitization to offer an entryway into its over 500 years of historical texts already online.

Opinion

Looking at Cats with Ai Weiwei

“It’s all about the cats,” Ai Weiwei said recently, sitting in his Beijing compound in conversation with a writer for a new feline-themed magazine called Puss Puss. “They stay here, some have babies here, but it’s their home and really an oasis for us.”

Comics

Which Star Wars Character Are You?

Last year I took a Meyers-Briggs test. Then, I swear the following day, I was sent one of those —

Books

Calling the New York Underground Your Playground

Many of us probably remember our formative years sitting in class, taking the SATs and trying to lose our virginity. Few of us probably spent that time hanging out with Debbie Harry, playing Max’s Kansas City, or finding success in an underground band.

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A Site-Specific Garden by Mark Dion Faces Relocation

While temporarily saved from destruction, the fate of a site-specific work by Mark Dion in Lancaster, England, is in limbo. "The Tasting Garden," which was created in 1998 in the Storey Gardens and has had a rough few years of theft and decay, may now be relocated entirely.

Art

In Heaven There Is No Les Blank: The Rooted Works of a Great American Documentarian

Following the short stack of "Yum, Yum, Yum! 3 Movies by Les Blank," which played at its Cinema Fest this past June, BAMcinématek is now serving up a 17-movie Blank banquet.