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Cosmic Ceramics and Hunting Trophies Collide in Paris
PARIS — The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris is continuing its exhibitions among its hunting trophies and old world décor with Lin Utzon's Cosmic Dance.
Art
Lucio Fontana's Proto-Technologism
PARIS — If you want to leave all imagery behind for a free-fall into the immersive deep space of the virtual, Lucio Fontana is your quintessential man.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Glasgow's Macintosh building is mostly saved, a meditation on the essence of video games, background on the Joe Scanlan/Donelle Woolford project, the World Cup goes viral, the legacy of Anthony Caro, a giant golden calf piñata, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Multiple
Good news for a change: this week, Hyperallergic's Jillian Steinhauer covered the opening of McNally Jackson's Picture Room on Mulberry Street in Manhattan, a new shop "devoted to prints, editions, posters, and art and artists’ books."
Poetry
Adrift in the Blue Yonder: Peter Gizzi's Selected Poems
After steadily increasing for much of the twentieth century, and especially after World War II, real wages for the average worker in the United States have remained stagnant since around 1978, if in fact they haven’t slightly declined. At the time of this economic shift, Peter Gizzi was somewhere be
Art
Lethal Consumption and Silenced Clarinets
FERNDALE, MI – Often placing his work along the periphery of an exhibition space, Michael E. Smith turns the boundaries between his work and its architectural setting into a porous membrane.
News
Protesters Stage Intervention at Guggenheim's Futurist Exhibition
Last night's protest action at New York's Guggenheim Museum by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) is the group's fourth intervention and the latest to raise awareness about the labor conditions on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates.
Art
The Way West: Photographs by Peter Kayafas from America’s Open Road
When you stand on the shoulders of giants, what do you see — especially if you’re looking through an old Leica M6 rangefinder with a single, well-traveled, 35-millimeter lens, which, over a quarter of a century, has seen a lot?
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (May 2014, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of tUnE-yArDs, Lykke Li, Pharrel Williams, and Rick Ross.
Art
Homage to Absurdity: The Restless Legacy of Dennis Oppenheim
Everything moves in It Ain’t What You Make It's What Makes You Do It, a quirky funhouse of a show currently spinning, tapping, and pounding away at Valentine. And almost everything makes noise — a lot of noise. If you want to finish up the 2013–14 art season with a bang, this is the place to go.
Art
The Inescapable Sounds of the Everyday
SAN FRANCISCO — I visited during a hell of a week for the City by the Bay. With temperatures soaring into the 90s, the sounds of fans, ice cream trucks, and San Franciscans complaining about the heat wave and lack of air-conditioning filled the air.