Art
In Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard envisions the house as a "vertical being," with two symbolic poles: the irrationality of the cellar and the rational consciousness of the roof. “Up near the roof, all our thoughts are clear … Here we participate in the carpenter’s solid geometry.” The same can b
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WILLIAMSTOWN, MA — After a while it felt like a barrage: a darkly rendered animation set in a psychiatrist’s office and a gigantic space station; a Chinese labor camp investigation enacted by singing puppets; a film featuring a Depression-era Kansan doctor, goat testicles and the world’s most powerful radio
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Ever wonder which emoji are most popular with users? Now Emojitracker is tracking Twitter users to find out which symbols are being used the most right now.
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New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl has retracted his position endorsing the sale of the Detroit Institute of Arts collection, a stance which provoked a furor driven in no small part by Hrag Vartanian's denunciatory piece from Wednesday. Schjeldahl strikes a sincere tone in the brief update and a
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After seeing this image floating around the internet that promised the ability to "delete tourists from your travel photos," I felt compelled to fact check the claim.
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This fall the Tate Britain is opening an exhibition on art that has been physically attacked in the country, whether for political, religious, or personal reasons, or just because the artist was into destruction.
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The Colbert Report tackles the bankruptcy of Detroit, and the irony that Detroit could possibly sell off Diego Rivera's "Detroit Industry" mural, which depicts a socialist worker's utopia.
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Jeffrey Deitch out at MOCA, SAC Capital indicted, Lincoln Memorial vandalized, the hazardous storage of Smithsonian items, Walter de Maria and Alex Colville pass away, and more...
Art
We may admire the mathematical formulae of analytic cubism, stand in awe before a serene Raphael, or tilt our heads in bemusement at one of Jeff Koons’s inflatable lobsters. But sometimes the most affective and accessible art is made by non-artists — by amateurs and children. Unassuming and genuine,
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CHICAGO — As we settle into midway-through-summer mode here in the city that does sleep sometimes, we spend more time hanging at the beach, BBQing with friends and generally chillaxing. With this slowing down of general movement comes the proliferation of — wait for it! — the summer group show.
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Some curious creatures have arrived in City Hall Park, although they look pretty miserable about it. Olaf Breuning's "The Humans," with its loop of anthropomorphic figures showing a story of humans evolving from fish to fisher king, has each whimsical figure sporting a deep frown upon their marble f
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Artist Jennifer Wen Ma and lighting designer Zheng Jianwe have collaborated to create "Nature and Man in Rhapsody of Light" at Beijing's famed Water Cube aquatic center.