Art
All the Pretty Selfies Are Here to Stay
CHICAGO — Just because "selfies" was named Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year and Barack Obama shot that funeral selfie doesn't mean these internet self-portraits are a passing fad.
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Books
10 Best Art Books of 2013
2013 was a great year for art-related books from publishers of all stripes …
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Italian Library Ransacked by Its Own Director
Another day, another depressing story about the deterioration of cultural patrimony in Italy. The subject this time? The Biblioteca dei Girolamini, a 16th-century library in Naples that was systematically looted by its director.
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Pussy Riot Members Go Free [UPDATED]
After the passage of an amnesty bill in the Russian parliament last week, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the two imprisoned members of Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot, have been freed.
Art
When Outsider Art and Christmas Collide
It's easy to get obsessive around the holidays, what with the frantic shopping and cheerful imbibing and decorations to be placed. But some take it a long step further.
Art
The Multiple Realities and Other Worlds of Art
Press releases for exhibitions deserve their bad reputation. They’re usually as boring as wallpaper, and they all use the same bromide phrases with the word “ubiquitous” thrown in at least once for good measure. But, then, proving there’s always an exception, I came across a release for the inaugura
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, East Germany surveillance, the Knoedler forger speaks, smarm vs. snark, Guggenheim's authenticity problem, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Crash
What goes up, must come down, especially when no one really knows what it is. On Wednesday, Bitcoin crashed.
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (December 2013, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Eminem, Haim, Dean Wareham, and Queens of the Stone Age.
Art
After All These Years: Richard Van Buren’s Work of the ’70s
You never know when a work of art might become part of your DNA, the visceral memory of which you carry around with you, even if you seldom have occasion to think about it.
Music
Yoko Ono’s New Music and New Writings: It’s Her Universe, and Welcome to It!
Today, Ono is no longer, as Lennon quipped in the late 1960s, “the world's most famous unknown artist”; at the time, he added: “everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.”
Art
Self-Portraits in a Complex Mirror: The Photographs of Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier spent some forty years working as a nanny in Chicago. When she died in 2009 at the age of eighty-three, she left behind well over a hundred thousand photographic negatives, evidence of decades spent wandering the streets of her hometown, as well as others cities and locales around the w