Opinion
Required Reading
This week, mountains on top of skyscrapers, changes to art dealing, MIT's art collection, printing architecture, a same-sex kiss misinterpreted, and more.
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Weekend Words: Rejection
This week, in honor of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, Weekend Words considers rejection.
Art
Ken Price’s Time
I was very happy to see the exhibition, but I was not surprised that Ken Price (1935–2012) had to wait until he was safe in heaven dead to have his first museum show in New York, Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (August 2013, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Bombino, the Civil Wars, Deerhunter, and Savages.
Art
Stay Cool: Art, August, and Acid
Do you like your art hot or cool? A summer show at DCKT Contemporary brimming with youthful energy splits the difference, serving up a carte du jour of candy-colored formalism or post-neo-conceptual Pop, depending on how you look at it.
News
Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Charged with Murder, Claims Innocence
Prominent South African artist Zwelethu Mthethwa has been accused of murdering a woman in a suburb of Cape Town and will go on trial starting on Monday. He denies the charge.
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Listen to the Eerie Tune of a Toy Pig That Last Played as the Titanic Sank
Just over a hundred years since it serenaded Titanic survivors huddled in a lifeboat on the icy seas, a little toy pig's music has been resurrected.
Art
Wasted Wonder: Picturing Science, but Not Explaining It
Winding my way past the American Museum of Natural History’s giant elephants and intricate dioramas, toward the exhibition Picturing Science, my fantasies bloomed. I prepared to be awed by the beautiful miracle of biology and by the power of the technology that lets us see it. But, upon reaching the
Opinion
James Franco Plans to Explore Art Through Reality TV
Just when you thought art reality TV couldn't get any worse, something comes along to suggest otherwise. In two words: James Franco.
News
Art Movements
Artifact looting and ancient church destruction in Egypt, the Christie's appraisal of DIA, Old Masters saved in Berlin, 5 Pointz death knell, and more.
Interview
Agricultural Evolution Leads to the New Garden City
CHICAGO — Before centuries of modernization and industry settled in, Gentofte, Denmark, was a simple farming town under the vision of a single lord with 42 serfs. Over the past 200 years, Gentofte has evolved into what is rightly considered a suburb. In the exhibition New Garden City, curator Aukje
Art
The Sharpest Photographs Ever Taken of the Night Sky
A new technology is allowing astronomers to take sharper than ever photographs of the night sky, revealing secrets of the solar system and the universe beyond.