Art
A Moving Meditation on Mortality in Brice Marden's Late Paintings
What I see as his late period reveals an artist who knows that change is inevitable, that mortality is hurrying closer, and that art is not a bulwark against time.
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Art
An Artist Honors Iceland's Wild Nature from a Distance
Jónsi hasn’t just utilized natural materials but has, one senses, collaborated with them, allowing them their own innate power.
Art
Athena LaTocha Digs Deep into Brooklyn’s Past
The artist’s wall-size drawing evokes a geologic mood within a neighborhood that has changed in recent decades.
Film
Yugoslavian Monuments Deliver a Message from Two Billion Years in the Future
The only film directed by composer Jóhann Jóhannsson before his death in 2018, Last and First Men is an eerie combination of sci-fi and documentary.
Opinion
Why Does Instagram Keep Allowing My Images to Be Stolen?
It seems like my plum photo can be used to sell almost anything: beauty products, nutritional supplements, mental health coaching, fashion, concept stores.
Books
A History of Utopian Nudist Clubs in Buttoned-up Britain
In the mid-1900s, nudists in Britain believed they could improve national health and remedy buttoned-up social norms and rigid class divisions.
Opinion
The Humboldt Forum’s Disappointing Ethnographic Collections
The Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art were not included in the Forum’s grand inauguration in July, but instead, quietly opened in September.
Art
The Poetry of Black Daily Life in the Art of Whitfield Lovell
Each portrait in Lovell's current exhibition is a lens through which to consider the complex humanity of Black subjectivity in American history.
News
Heirs Sue Philadelphia Museum of Art for a Piet Mondrian Painting
The artwork was looted by Nazis before it was purchased by a New York collector and friend of Mondrian, who donated it to the PMA.
News
Two Artists Charged With Faking Indigenous Heritage to Sell Art
Lewis Anthony Rath and Jerry Chris Van Dyke, who separately sold their work at two Seattle galleries, could face prison time for violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act.
Opinion
We Need to Move Toward Conceptual and Accessible Sound Art
Elaborate soundscapes billed as performances that are indistinguishable from bourgeois sound bath events sponsored by an Equinox gym aren't pushing the medium forward.
News
UK Bans Export on a Rare Painting Featuring a Black and White Woman
A committee decreed the painting’s departure from the UK would be a misfortune because of its outstanding significance to the study of race and gender in the 17th century.