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Rag & Boon: Christie's Auctions Basquiat Sweatshirt
This sweatshirt, listed today in a Christie's online auction, was allegedly hand-painted by Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1979 and 1980.
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Art
The Academy Award Goes to the Corporate Selfie
PORTLAND, Oregon — The 2014 Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres knows a selfie moment when she sees it. In her second year orchestrating celebrity moments the selfie makes its move into Hollywood in a way that's far more serious than James Franco's self-involved ponderings or Justin Bieber's epic adolescenc
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New York City Schools Fail at Art
New York State public schools administrators aren't taking art seriously, according to a new report filed by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli last Tuesday.
Art
Rediscovering a Jazz-Age Modernist
Through subtle portraiture and roaring scenes of the Jazz Age, painter Archibald J. Motley Jr. chronicled the diversity and dynamism of the African-American community during the early decades of the 20th century.
Art
Mel Chin's Media Hacks and Conceptual Beauty
NEW ORLEANS — Considering that one of Mel Chin's most audacious works appeared before an audience of millions on network television over a two-year period, it's curious that he's not more of a household name.
Art
Brief Interventions with Hideous Men
Oscar Wilde was suspicious of men in suits. He once famously remarked that "with an evening coat and a white tie, even a stock broker can gain a reputation for being civilized."
Opinion
Surreal Puppets Retell the Jabberwocky
SAN FRANCISCO — At San Francisco's annual Dickens Fair, I learned about the work of Darren Way, whose Dangerous Puppets creations feature fanciful characters and bizarre imagery bordering on the fantastical and grotesque.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, tensions in Ukraine mount, responsibility of architects, aestheticizing politics, Spike Lee's gentrification rant, Ai Weiwei on the internet's influence on his work, and much more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Revive
Today's New York Times Magazine brings news from the forefront of the de-extinction movement, which hopes to use genome-editing technology to revive lost species, including "an Australian frog, extinct for 30 years, that gave birth through its mouth."
Art
Thomas McEvilley: And Autumnstruck We Would Not Hear the Song
Everyone talks about working outside the box but most of us don’t even know what box we’re boxed in by so we box ourselves in all the more. The work of Thomas McEvilley not only shows the imaginary fly the way out of actual fly bottles but also shows that preposterous insect how to get back in.
Art
Receivers and Transmitters: Michelle Segre’s Recent Sculpture
In Michelle Segre’s sculpture “Self-Reflexive Narcissistic Supernova” (2013), a mushroom cap — made of wax and five feet in diameter — lies on its side in a provocative position evoking a horn, ear, and vagina — a form that receives and/or transmits.
Music
Justin Bieber, Ideal Lover
The most remarkable moment of the Justin Bieber concert I saw July 20 at Boston's TD Garden occurred before the singer even showed up.