Opinion
Required Reading
This week, an unexpected art forger, tintypes return to war, a phallus museum, frontline at an Egyptian protest rally, KKK in photos, the relationship of comics and poetry, and much more.
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Weekend Words: Betrayal
The arts are never far from reach, even at the scuzziest of murder trials.
Art
Katherine Bradford and the Bigger Picture
I left Katherine Bradford’s first museum show, August, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine (June 29 – September 1, 2013) wishing for an in-depth survey. As it is, there are eight paintings ranging from 10 x 10 inches to 68 x 80 inches — a sumptuous sampling — exhibited in one gall
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Reading in the Dark: Drawings from Australia
There’s something in the air about art and reading. In addition to Summer Reading at The Hole, the New York Studio School is presenting a show called Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing 4.
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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