Opinion
Will the Art Market Ever Regulate Itself?
Regulation in the world of art commerce is a troublesome word.
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Beastie Boys Mom Donates Major Renaissance Painting to Massachusetts Museum
This month, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts announced it has acquired Paolo Veronese’s "Venus Disarming Cupid" (circa 1560), which is believed to be one of the few works by the famed Renaissance master still in private hands.
Opinion
Van Gogh Museum 3D Prints Its Own Paintings
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has begun 3D printing reproductions of a handful of paintings in its own collection, taking art in the age of mechanical reproduction to a whole new level.
Art
On the Origin of Selfies
CHICAGO — A selfie is a certain type of self-portrait photography shot with a digital camera or smartphone. Selfies are typically of-the-moment images, require little to no planning, and usually occur in domestic settings such as the bedroom or bathroom.
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.
Opinion
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