Art
A Children’s Tour of the Metropolitan Museum: 2034
Twenty years in the future at a little museum called the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Opinion
Welcome to "It's the Arts," with Monty Python
It's the Friday afternoon before Memorial Day Weekend, which means, if you're anything like me, your brain is somewhere out the window. Why not indulge its wandering weirdness with some Monty Python?
Opinion
Tired Photoshop Idea: Old Masters Lose Weight
There are days I when hate the internet, particularly when it recycles the same idea again and again and again as if it were original. The latest (and most egregious) culprit is Lauren Wade and her tired project that photoshops Old Masters until they resemble the proportions of contemporary fashion
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Fire Rages in Glasgow School of Art's Historic Mackintosh Building [Updated]
A blaze erupted around noon GMT at the Glasgow School of Art's historic Mackintosh Building completed in 1909, the Scotsman reported.
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Art Movements
FBI confirms Gardner heist sightings, China museum full of fakes, Bill Viola goes on permanent display at St. Paul's, and more from the week in art news.
Art
Nostalgia for the Disappearing Danger of Mid-Century Playgrounds
There's a lot of nostalgia around old playgrounds, for the burns in summer on the overheated metal slides or the nauseating spinning play on the whirl. Those brushes or hits with danger are why most of them are gone, replaced with safer, less rusty, contraptions.
Art
Invoking the Absence at a Veterans Memorial
CHICAGO — At the eastern end of Diversey Avenue in Chicago stands an impressive classical-style rotunda, overlooking a short stretch of parkland that gives way to Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan.
News
Walmart Goes After Photographer's Widow
If you needed another reason to wonder why Walmart might be one of the world's most evil companies, then the recent story pitting the retail giant against a family of photographers may fit the bill.
Art
Biodiversity Traced in Over 2 Million Natural History Museum Images
From rows of tiny pinned insects to drawers of stuffed birds of prey, the holdings of natural history museums are as varied as the biodiversity they collect. However, accessibility is often a problem, as is the connection of data across institutions.
Opinion
Saluting Sun Ra at 100
The artist known as Sun Ra would have turned 100 years old today. In death, as in life, the man born Herman Poole Blount on May 22nd, 1914 is a forceful enigma, an influence on more than a generation of musicians, thinkers, and artists.
Interview
Artists Pick Artists: Serban Savu
Serban Savu lives in Cluj, Romania and makes his paintings in a former paintbrush factory. His subjects are his surroundings, his people and places, sometimes painted directly or other times invented.
Interview
Masks for the Surveillance State
SAN FRANCISCO — It seems like everyone is making artistic reactions to our increasingly surveilled world.