Art
Required Reading
This week, the Tonga eruption as captured from space, Boston gets a big gift of Dutch and Flemish painting, 30 years of New Queer Cinema, an important Marcel Breuer house is demolished, and much more.
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Hannah Lee's Dreamlike Realism
Being bowled over by an unknown artist’s first one-person show does not happen often but when it does, it renews your faith that the art world is not just about buzz and hype.
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Brandon Lattu’s Post-Camera Photography Employs Scanners, Photoshop, and Computer Programs
Surrealist images of a Rice Krispies box or Yukon Gold potato explore how data is transformed into the visual language called art.
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A Remarkable Online Show of Young Photography
What is wonderful about the online photography exhibition What Have We Stopped Hiding? is that one is given entrée to the internal monologue of the artists featured in the show.
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New Folk Art Museum Celebrates the Rise of Craft During the Pandemic
Self-taught artists were invited to exhibit, and sell, their fuzzy stacks of pancakes and tasseled tapestries.
Opinion
When We Confuse the Artist's Muse with the Artist's Model
Our culture seems obsessed with the artist/model relationship, portrayed in countless movies and narratives as a relationship that is lustful and scandalous.
News
Tennessee School Board Bans Maus, Famous Graphic Novel About the Holocaust
Creator Art Spiegelman said he was “baffled” by the decision and called the school board’s behavior “Orwellian.”
News
An Unbelievably Tiny Turtle And Other Stunning Underwater Photos
The winners of this year’s Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest prove that life is indeed better under the sea.
Art
Robert Gober Looks Into Our Heart of Darkness
In his new works, Gober pulled me into another world, one that was both illuminated by natural light and full of cold shadows.
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Boris Lurie's Search for Historical Truth in Trauma
What’s difficult, perhaps impossible, to show in art is the experience of what passes beyond all comprehension.
Art
What Is the Future of Monuments?
Testament at Goldsmiths College asks: Can any monument be removed of its tarnish?
Opinion
What a Boxed Columbus Statue Reveals
Hiding in plain sight, the box obscures a vast legacy of inequality without undoing it. It removes the most visible source of conflict without addressing the root causes.