Art
Final Ascent: Joseph Beuys and the Languages of Art
Mention Joseph Beuys’ name and the usual iconic gestures come to mind. But if you dig beneath the surface, even a little, you’ll discover how ultimately alien his art really is.
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In Paris, Punk's Curatorial Redemption
PARIS — Unlike the widely ridiculed Costume Institute show PUNK: Chaos to Couture, a show that examined punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the 1970s through its enduring influence today, Europunk: An artistic revolution, recently closed at Cité de la Musique, was rigorously p
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Over 200 Years of Portraiture in One Exhibition
Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture at Rutger University's Zimmerli Art Museum considers some 200 years (c. 1800 to the present) of the portrait's history in mediums two-, three- and four-dimensional, with 130 works by approximately 80 artists.
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Welcome to Mike Kelley University
The Mike Kelley retrospective at MoMA PS1 is, in a word, large. One might expect as much, given that it is a retrospective, but this one is uniquely big: it marks the first time the entire museum has ever been given over to one artist.
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Detroit Bankruptcy Judge Denies Creditors a New Appraisal of DIA
In July, when we covered Peter Schjeldahl's since-retracted stance on selling the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), we noted the legal and logistical challenges of liquidating any part of the collection. Though a lot has transpired since then, there remains a lingering uncertainty about the legal sta
Opinion
Seeing the Elderly Through Children's Eyes
What might children's drawings look like in an internet age? Photographer Yoni Lefévre's Grey Power series reimagines children's drawings as photos.
Art
The Seafoam Palace: Opening a Museum for the Curious in Detroit
A group of artists and urban explorers are taking on the ambitious task of transforming a deteriorated building in Detroit into a museum of curiosity.
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Art Movements
Le Corbusier vandalized, Philippines wants Imelda Marcos art back, Getty gets Kitchen archives, Michael Graves and John Johansen buildings up for demolition, and more from the week in art news.
Books
Poetry for 49 Days of Grief
There are surprisingly few poetry collections built around the experience of loss. One of them, published just last year, is Time of Grief: Mourning Poems, selected by poet and New Directions editor Jeffrey Yang.
Art
Flowers Grown from the Topography of a Museum
These are flowers grown from a museum, where the colors, textures, and shapes of exhibitions guided each petal, stem, and branch. British designer Daniel Brown has spent a decade creating these generated plants through an algorithm where mathematics and nature overlap.
Art
A Community Considers Systemic Support of the Arts
ALBUQUERQUE — As arts communities across the nation work to develop long-term sustainability in the face of the shifting economy, getting people talking together seems like a good first step.
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'Joseph Beuys: Process 1971–1985’ at Rooster Gallery
"Socio-economic illumination, enabled by the evolutionary process of thought, was Beuys’ end-goal," writes Kara L. Rooney in her substantial catalogue essay for Joseph Beuys: Process 1971–1985, the small but ambitious show she's curated at the similarly disposed Rooster Gallery on Orchard Street.