Art
10 Chicago Art Exhibitions to See This Winter
CHICAGO — There will be hundreds of exhibitions between now and the end of March, when the weather starts to warm up around these Middle West parts. Here's 10.
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Art Rx
This week, we're covering a lot of ground — from a symposium on the transformation of museums in the age of social media to an exhibition of new ceramic works by Lynda Benglis.
News
70% of Ancient Tibetan Town Destroyed by Fire
Nearly 300 houses were destroyed in a major fire that destroyed about two thirds of Dukezong in Shangri-La county on Saturday, January 11. The 1,300-year-old city is a popular tourist destination in the southwest Yunnan province is renowned for its ancient Tibetan town of mostly wooden houses with c
Opinion
Instagram, Art, and Native American Narratives
On Twitter recently, #NotYourNarrative popped up, a series of hashtag statements largely from persons of color in the United States who wanted to challenge dominant media narratives.
Art
New Fellowship Aims to Diversify Museum Curatorial Ranks
The art world, as those of us who participate in it know quite well, is exceedingly white. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is taking a stab at that problem with a new fellowship that seeks to diversify the curatorial field, specifically at major art institutions around the county.
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Foundations Offer $330M to Help Save Detroit (and Its Art)
In an unprecedented move, nine local and national foundations have pledged $330 million to help the city of Detroit settle its bankruptcy, the Detroit Free Press reported.
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Wonder World, or Against the New Universal Exhibition
PARIS — Theatre of the World, currently on view at La Maison Rouge, raises the thorny issue of the individual and particular against the homogeneous collective.
Art
Watching the Selfie Olympics
CHICAGO — The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, will begin on February 7, but the selfie olympics have already gone viral.
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Algorithm Predicts Literary Success
Computer scientists at Stony Brook University have developed an algorithm that predicts, with an accuracy reaching 84%, the "success" of a novel.
Art
You're Just Some Weirdo
LOS ANGELES — Every day, a weirdo is born. Some people feel as if they have the word terminally painted across their foreheads and need no reminders of their weirdness. Others visit artist Kristin Calabrese's studio — as I did right after getting off a plane in Los Angeles, a city I’d never before b
Books
Photographs from a Decade of Motherhood
In photographer Elinor Carucci's new monograph Mother, she chronicles nine years of motherhood, from the tentative expectancy of pregnancy to the whir of raising children in the bustle of New York City.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, how the government is accessing your data, a Richard Serra takedown, the failure of open concept office space, when a tweet becomes an ad, US military street art in Afghanistan, people who prefer modern art over ancient art, and more.