Art
Forensic Observer: The Recent Paintings of Josephine Halvorson
Josephine Halvorson transcribes the anonymous, weather-beaten traces left by those who might otherwise have left no other mark of their existence behind.
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Kickstarter Hacked, User Data Stolen
Tonight, Kickstarter announced they had a security breach early this week, and they didn't know until law enforcement officials told them on Wednesday night.
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Beer with a Painter: Ryan Cobourn
A couple of years ago, while we were walking through the de Kooning exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Ryan Cobourn said to me, “Your interviews with artists should be more informal and rambling. You should do them, y’know, over beer.”
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A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Marville's Photographs of Paris before Haussmann
The life of French photographer Charles Marville, the subject of a retrospective currently at the Metropolitan Museum, comes down to us hazy in its contours. Born Charles-François Bossu in 1813 to a family of artisans and tradesmen, Marville rid himself of “Bossu” (hunchback) after being teased abou
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It’s a Man’s World: Inside a Postwar Art Time Capsule
There may be some great-looking specimens of postwar art in Re-View: Onnasch Collection — an exhibition that turns Hauser & Wirth’s cavernous Chelsea outpost into a mini-museum offering the kind of intimate experiences that have been all but lost in New York’s uptown behemoths — but the show also ar
Film
Capturing Slow Portraits of People and Landscapes
Koyanisqaatsi, a debut collaboration between filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass, broke ground in so many ways in the 1980's for exploring film as a poetic, rather than narrative or theatrical expression. Over ten years later, Reggio and Glass have come together to produce Visitors, a
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Artist studios in Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
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A Brutal and Beautiful Planet: The 2014 World Press Photo Winners
The 2014 World Press Photo contest awardees were announced today, with the winners for the major photojournalism prize showing both the wonder and violence of the past year.
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No Longer the Parsley to the Roast: Landscape Architect Dan Kiley's Legacy
Few major architects have centennial exhibitions highlighting how some of their works are "dying quiet deaths," but that is part of the legacy of Dan Kiley.
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Excavating the Music Hidden in Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights"
Have you ever noticed the musical notes tattooed on some unfortunate soul in Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights"?
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Russian and American Artists Respond to Natural Disasters
It is tempting to feel you’ve subdued nature when a hand-held device allows you to peruse newspapers from Beirut to Sydney, or purchase an airline seat that will get you to either city the next day. Fortunately — or unfortunately, depending on what we now refer to as your GPS coordinates — there are
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Art Movements
More Nazi looted art emerges, Germany announces it will create an independent center for looted art, Picasso tapestry stays up, Nancy Holt, Hudson and Stuart Hall die, and much more.