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.
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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.
Performance
Rehearsing Tomorrow: Mallory Cattlet’s 'This Was the End'
Mallory Cattlet’s This Was the End at The Chocolate Factory in Long Island City occupies a point along the continuum between theater and visual art. The emphasis is on the visual perception of the stage set and the video projections by Keith Skretch, which sometimes replicate both the set and action
Art
Impossible Beauty, Erotic and Sublime
A vision of disruptive, gritty perfection can be glimpsed at Valentine in Ridgewood, where the paintings of Patricia Satterlee and the sculptures of David Henderson and Jude Tallichet cohabit the space with bristling singularity.
Interview
The Universal Humanism of Emancipatory Struggles
Jehane Noujaim's The Square is a cinéma vérité-style documentary offering an electrifyingly intimate, character-driven perspective on Egypt's political uprising and ensuing turmoil.
Interview
Painting Faded Memories
Kimberly Brooks's solo exhibition I Notice People Disappear, currently on view at ArtHouse 429 in West Palm Beach, Florida, shows a beautiful evolution from her previous work; she has a looser style that demonstrates a confidence in taking chances.
Art
A Look at the Oscar-Nominated (and Not) Animated Shorts
The Oscars are coming up this Sunday, which can only mean one thing ... Best Animated Short Film! OK, fine, I do care about Best Picture, and whether Ellen will pull off her hosting duties, but Best Animated Short Film is one of those off-the-radar categories that seems less predictable and thus mor
News
Art Movements
Guggenheim collection Léger revealed to be a forgery, stolen Amherst art cold case reopened, Gramercy Park Calder heading to Amsterdam, Art Students League continues battle over cantilever, and more.
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