Art
Scratching the Surface of Things
SAN FRANCISCO — “ … Instead of feelings or human adventures,” wrote Francis Ponge, the French Surrealist “poet of things” in 1942, “I choose as subjects the most emotionless objects available.”
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Opinion
New York Times Dramatizes Absurd Legal Transcript
A new video series at the New York Times seeks to remedy the suspension of disbelief often required when dealing with the absurd in "court trials, depositions, or government hearings."
Art
Sowing Wildflowers Across Los Angeles as Hyperlocal Public Art
Fifty sites in Los Angeles are now blooming with beautiful wildflowers as part of an artist-led initiative to bring back native flora to the city's open spaces.
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Pushing Paper in Quebec
MONTREAL — Entry was free but the carpet still red, a rain-sodden lilt up entrance stairs. And under drab skies the people came. Here, tonguing the periphery of Montreal's infamous red light district, was Papier14, the works-on-paper fair's seventh annual iteration.
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American Museum of Natural History Launches Online Archives with Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman
This Monday the American Museum of Natural History launched a new digital platform with thousands of images from their archives. It kicked off the initiative with an event featuring two artists who have been profoundly influenced by its collections.
Books
What Tom Finkelpearl (and Many Others) Made, and Might Make
There's been so much hemming and hawing about “social practice” art in the past few years, it’s a little painful to even say, or type, the phrase. So, it felt a little odd to be picking up a fairly lengthy book on the topic, What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation. But the number o
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Designing Spaces for a Better Death
As life spans extend and the window of time in which we experience death widens — hospital visits, hospice care, nursing homes, funeral homes — some architects are considering how we can better design for this final chapter.
Announcement
Purchase College, SUNY School of Art+Design Presents MFA Exhibition “Whistle Stop”
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Opinion
"Dia de los Muertos" Meets Fast Food America
In the world of fast food art, there are Spanish-speaking Chihuahuas, bespectacled southern gentlemen, and hamburger-dealing clowns. Now, there’s a new and unlikely emblem of American gastronomy: a skeleton.
News
One of New York's Most Conservative Museums Now Permits Photography
Add the Frick Collection, one of New York City's oldest and most staid museums, to the list of art institutions that have begun allowing visitors to take photographs in their permanent-collection galleries.
Art
An American Doing Things
BERLIN — Through a quaint garden off the back porch of the main gallery of Haus am Lützowplatz is a small basement gallery filled with video works, handwritten texts, props from performances, sculpture, and other memorabilia by the Louisville-born, Berlin-based artist Brad Downey.
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Art Rx
Warhol lands in Queens, Bochner at Manhattan's Jewish Museum, and a Monet "Water Lilies" painting is on view for the first time since 1923.