Art
This Year, Frieze Los Angeles Feels Grand, Celebratory, and Actually Kind of Fun
This year’s iteration drives painted sports cars into the showroom, disguises booths as furnished apartments, and even houses a James Turrell skyroom.
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VCU ICA Hosts First Major Solo Exhibition of The Otolith Group in North America
Xenogenesis presents a sampling of the Otolith Group’s works from 2011 to 2018, on view from February 22 to May 10. Admission is free and open to all.
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The Little-Known Story of a Frank Stella Work Once Mistaken for a Lunch Table
In 1972, Stella donated "Isfahan III" (1968) to the Museum of Solidarity in Chile. After a coup d'etat, the artwork disappeared for nearly 20 years, but its story is coming to light as the museum conserves the painting with the help of the Getty Foundation.
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Former Hamptons Gallerist Gave Anti-Indigenous Rant at Documentary Screening
At a screening for Conscience Point, about the local Shinnecock Nation, a seemingly intoxicated Ruth Vered allegedly called herself "the queen of white privilege." She was escorted out by police, and arrested after kicking an officer.
Art
An Artist Presents Menopausal Women's Bodies as Powerfully Sexual
Inspired by Jean Genet’s 1950 homoerotic Un Chant D’Amour, Pauline Curnier Jardin's recent film Qu’un Sang Impur (2019) interrogates patriarchal credo through the lens of its unseen bodies.
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Images of Black Women as Avatars of Spiritual Agency
Delita Martin's latest exhibition, Calling Down the Spirits, seeks to visualize the incorporeal and genetic strands that tether generations of Black women to each other and to the spiritual world.
Film
Highlighting the Many Forms and Facets of Latin American Cinema
Now in its fifth edition, this year’s Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema is notable for its strong documentary selection, which encompasses topics such as war, capitalism, personal history, and folklore.
Art
The Body Is Both Vulnerable and Powerful for One of India's Most Prominent Printmakers
The Soul (Un)Gendered: Anupam Sud, A Retrospective at DAG gallery is the first retrospective of Sud’s work in the USA, and is good introduction to her intense and existentialist art.
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Week in Review: Anti-Oil Activists Occupy British Museum To Protest BP-Funded Exhibition; Chile Foregoes Participation In Spanish Art Fair, Prompting Backlash
Also, the Rothko Chapel in Houston will reopen this June, the US Department of the Interior has finalized plans to allow drilling, mining, and grazing in national monuments in southern Utah, and more.
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Photojournalist Arrested by NYPD While Filming Police Officers
In video footage captured by his friend, Amr Alfiky loudly and clearly repeats that he is a journalist and offers to show his press credentials while a group of police push him against a car and handcuff him.
Art
A Closer Look at Deutsche Bank, Frieze Art Fair’s Biggest Sponsor
Deutsche Bank, notorious for Trump ties, is under increased scrutiny after federal investigations into potential money-laundering lapses. But its art world involvement is mostly relegated to footnotes or brief mentions.
Art
Fatigued by the Everyday? These Artists Are, Too
In the medical field, "empathy fatigue" is used to describe a state of exhaustion when compassion towards patients becomes tiring. Applying this term to its latest exhibition, Andrew Rafacz has brought together seven artists whose works investigate empathy on a global scale.