Art
The Chinese Focus at Armory
There are few hot topics in the art world like China, which along with its growing economic might is starting to flex its cultural soft power and demonstrate that it is central to any global dialogue.
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Sydney Biennale Cuts Ties with Transfield as Chairman Resigns (UPDATED)
The Biennale of Sydney will end its relationship with major sponsor Transfield Holdings, and Biennale Chairman Luca Belgiorno-Nettis has resigned, the Guardian reports. The moves come in response to a growing boycott of the exhibition over its link with Transfield.
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Art Movements
Pussy Riot attacked in Russia, seizures of art in Queens, Lars von Trier film banned in Turkey, and more from the week in art news.
Film
Why a New Film on Particle Physics Is Essential Viewing
In terms of understanding the very nature of our world, it's hard to overestimate the significance of the Large Hadron Collider, and a new documentary makes a very convincing case.
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Vaulting Through Volta NY
A cynic might observe, correctly, that a large commercial fair is as good a place as any to be reminded that most art sucks.
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Independent, but Still an Art Fair
The Independent art fair was born out of a sprawling nonprofit project founded by dealer Elizabeth Dee. Called the X Initiative, it turned the former Chelsea home of the Dia Art Foundation into a yearlong hub of exhibitions, performance, conversations, and more, all with an alternative bent. As it w
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Whitney Biennial 2014: Anthony Elms on the Second Floor
Whitney Biennial curator Anthony Elms took on the nebulous meaning of "American art" most directly in his selections, but the results don't really say a lot about what it means to be American — at least not in a way that makes it distinct from Canadian, Australian, Argentinean, or some other nationa
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Sydney Biennale Boycott Grows
Four more artists have joined the boycott of the Biennale of Sydney, and the protest of arts organizations connected to Transfield, a company that manages mandatory offshore detention centers for asylum seekers in Australia, is growing.
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Empty Photographs
CHICAGO — Lynn Saville's photography series Vacancy captures storefronts, malls, parks, highways, and billboards across America. Existing now in states of transition, they largely appear deserted, and lifeless.
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Easing up on Litigation, Getty Images Goes Free for Non-Commercial Use
Getty Images made a remarkable shift this week from blanketing the internet with ominous copyright infringement letters to offering some 35 million of their images for free non-commercial use.
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An Upstate Artist's Work Is Never Done
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Tech Boom Brings San Francisco Gallery Diaspora
Months before his death in 2011, Steve Jobs told a crowd gathered for the unveiling of the iPad 2: “It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”