Art
Between the Sheets: Art and Books at The Hole
One of the most pleasant surprises to pop out of the August doldrums is Summer Reading at The Hole — particularly for the lemonade that the gallery has made out of its lemon of a space.
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Bad Girl Criminality and American Teen Dreams
News broke last month that celebrity Lindsay Lohan would soon be getting her own "docu-series," aka reality TV show, on OWN, the Oprah Network. Now that she’s out of court-ordered rehab, she'll sit down with Oprah for an exclusive interview about all things LiLo, airing August 18th; her reality TV s
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Lego Wants You to Unleash Your Inner Modernist
Lego released a new kit this month with no instructions, almost entirely white bricks, and the hopes that you'll turn the blocks into mini-modernist experiments.
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Egyptian "Archaeologists' Syndicate" Calls for Expulsion of Foreign Researchers
In a show of scholarly inquiry turned jingoistic battleground, the Egyptian Archaeologists' Syndicate has demanded that foreign researchers and foreign institutions be expelled from the country. According to a report published earlier today in the country's English-language Ahram Online, Syndicate C
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Remix the Urban Jungle in the Cloud
I suspect most of us take the designs of our cities and streets for granted, at least when they're working the way we want them to. But planning a single street requires myriad decisions. A nifty new web app called Streetmix, made by the current fellows of Code for America, lets you think about and
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Art Movements
Museum looting in Egypt, Norman Foster leaves Moscow project, Ed Ruscha joins SFMOMA board, Mike Kelley retrospective, and more.
Interview
Detritus Blossoms in an Abandoned Nightclub
CHICAGO — The walls were painted pink-and-yellow zigzags, and a cast of characters outfitted in white tuxes and animal heads ignited an abandoned nightclub, turning the space into a carnivalesque, Dada-influenced funhouse without mirrors. This is just one moment from Ben Coleman and Henry Detweiler'
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Munch: More Than The Scream
OSLO — It’s everywhere in Oslo: greeting you at the airport and hanging in the train station, on billboards and in gift shops. It is perhaps the most famous art image of the twentieth century, and Norway is celebrating what would be the 150th birthday of its creator. Even when Edvard Munch (1863-194
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Unbuilt Museums
Some museums just aren't meant to be. For reasons of being too complicated, expensive, or just too out there to exist, many architects' plans for museums have been unrealized.
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German Court Protects Rights of Nazi-Saluting Artist
A German court ruled yesterday that Berlin and Hamburg-based conceptual and performance artist Jonathan Meese had not violated the country's notoriously strict anti-hate laws in his performances of the Nazi salute.
Opinion
Guaranteed to Make You Smile: Emoji Art History 2.0
Thanks to Annie Werner at Tumblr, who has pointed out that Emoji Art History has gone to the next level.
Art
Early Photographs of a Child Getting Spooked by Bogeymen
What child doesn't dread the unseen monsters potentially lurking under the bed, or stalking around the shadows outside the window? These photographs from the 1920s realize this terror in a series of comical and upsetting staged horror.