Art
Required Reading
This week, the full story behind the closing of the Marciano Art Foundation, the LA County Museum of Art's debt issues, colonialism and Parasite, a Hieronymus Bosch parade, and more.
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Music
The Electronic Symphonies of Video Game Scores
I haven’t played the game Death Stranding, but I know one thing: The score, composed by Ludvig Forssell for prepared piano, synthesizer, and found percussion, is beautiful.
Books
Eileen Myles Listens for the "Pulse Outside" Their Home
Myles’s poems walk and shift with all their pieces sloshing this way and that, and invite the reader for the ride.
Film
A Model Who Shunned Celebrity for Marxism
The Disappearance of My Mother honors the staunch conviction and introversion of Benedetta Barzini, who shunned Warhol celebrity for political solidarity, and in her later years, Spartan solitude.
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Painting Clings On
Painting’s funeral was canceled at the last minute.
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Taking Appropriation Too Far
To manipulate the historical record, I would think, is to abandon the search for truth.
Art
Once More Into the Culture Wars
To assert one’s inner life in a time of reactionary politics is a radical act.
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Shaking Up Op Art
Takuji Hamanaka's works seem to have been made by a mason who lives in a heightened state of consciousness.
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The Artist Who Ate the Art Basel Banana Returns With a Surprisingly Sentimental Exhibition of His Own
For The Hungry Artist Exhibit, David Datuna invites us to reenact the “performance piece” in which he ate Maurizio Cattelan’s $120,000 banana artwork.
In Brief
Metropolitan Museum Announces New Commissions by Carol Bove and Héctor Zamora
On April 21, Zamora will activate the roof garden, while Bove’s work will fill the façade niches starting September 9.
News
Report Exposes Physical Abuse Allegations Against Philadelphia Museum of Art's Former Retail Director
Employees tell the Philadelphia Inquirer that James A. Cincotta would hit, slap, punch, pinch, and shove his colleagues to the point of bruising and tears, as well as denigrate them verbally, often in public.
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The Anonymous Women Who Embroidered the Cruel History of the Chilean Dictatorship
The arpilleras narrated the course of Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship through bold colors, broad stitching, and striking imagery, often incorporating fabrics from their disappeared children’s clothes.