Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (August 2014, Part 1)
It has come to my attention that the radio edit of Future's "Move That Dope" has been christened "Move That Doh" in a classic censorship joke.
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A Supports/Surfaces Moment: Contradictions, Paradoxes and Other Ironies
For those who have been watching the critical misfortunes of Supports/Surfaces on the New York art scene over the years, it is a welcome surprise that, after decades of relative indifference, the movement finally seems to be getting some deserved attention.
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A Zoom with a View: Tullio Crali’s Death Loop
The affection, if not outright idolatry, the Futurists held for machines and speed initially focused on automobiles and locomotives, but in the early 1930s artists like Tullio Crali, Gerardo Dottori, Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni), and Giacomo Balla turned their attentions skyward to produce glorifying im
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Zaha Hadid Files Defamation Suit Over Labor Criticism
Architect Zaha Hadid, who designed the Al Wakrah stadium in Qatar currently in its initial stages of construction, recently filed a lawsuit against New York Review of Books architecture critic Martin Filler, Dezeen reported.
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Swoon's Underwater Fairy Tale
In one of the largest galleries at the Brooklyn museum, the artist Swoon has erected Submerged Motherlands, a colorful installation cloaked in the language of fairy tale and myth.
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In the Spirit of Summer Memories
LOS ANGELES — The summer months are a time of slowing down, going out, hitting the beach, and drinking far too many iced coffee beverages. And yes, I even remember you., a five-person group show at Aran Cravey Gallery curated by Eric Kim, wraps up the summer season nicely, reminding visitors of the
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Artists React to Ferguson and Its Discontents
As a black man played dead at the base of one of Philadelphia's most iconic sculptures, tourists continued snapping photographs in front of the landmark, the intrusive body lying at their feet recalling that of the slain Michael Brown.
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US Copyright Office Says Animal Authors Aren't Protected by Copyright
Earlier this month I wrote here that it would be very difficult to argue that a monkey could create a copyrightable work. Seems I was right.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Corcoran merger approved by judge, Soviet monument vandalized, and over 1000 first-pressings of the Beatle's "White Album" go on display in Liverpool.
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A Travel Bureau for a Trip to the Moon
Extraplanetary travel has seemed tantalizingly close ever since the first moon landing over 45 years ago. Alas, we're no closer to spending our summer holidays riding rovers on the lunar craters, and even with the advent of private space travel like Virgin Galactic and SpaceX it's astronomically una
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Navigate an Art Gallery Like a Video Game
It's not every day that you get to climb all over classic works for art — unless you're an unsupervised child — but a new online gallery lets you jump on the Koons and the Warhol.
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New Art in New Jersey
NEWARK — New Jersey’s image is calcified with tired cultural signifiers. It’s old hat. So it was lovely to encounter the Newark Museum’s latest exhibition, Ready or Not: 2014 New Jersey Arts Annual, a show displaying works by 40 contemporary artists based in the state.