Art
James Siena Changes His Approach
Siena’s paintings and drawings have become a maze of marks that he seems in no hurry to escape. They are odes to anonymous labor.
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Dreams of Beauty in Japanese Ukiyo-e Paintings
The figures in The Floating World indicate the new direction Japanese art was about to take over the next two centuries, its growing emphasis on daily life.
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British Rock Meets Modernism
Clive Arrowsmith’s photographs of Peter Gabriel spotlight a short-lived era when rock aspired to the condition of art.
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What Freedom Costs
Two exhibitions in Vienna take on the fragility of democratic structures.
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Louise Lawler’s Quiet Melancholy
If Lawler’s works were originally read as art about art, they now feel like art for art’s sake.
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Photographs of Women That Capture Ancestral Trauma
In Yes, and the body has memory, a group of women photographers grapples with notions of trauma, family, ancestral connections, and the female body.
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Viktor & Rolf Make Memeified Couture for a New Generation
Instead of designing couture that the masses would memeify, Viktor & Rolf designed memes that just happen to be couture.
In Brief
The Smithsonian Loses $1 Million Every Week of the Government Shutdown
The institute's leader, David Skorton says that the lost revenues "are not recoverable" and "will have a lasting effect on our budget."
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Rashid Johnson's Native Son Adaptation Acquired by HBO Ahead of Sundance Premiere
This adaptation of Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son is the visual artist's first feature film.
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A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Alaska, California, New York, and Ohio.
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In March, a Much-Needed Streaming Service for Arthouse Films Will Launch
A viable, dedicated platform for independent and art films has been needed. Enter OVID, a recently announced partnership between Docuseek and six independent film distribution companies.
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Naima Green Stacks Catherine Opie's "Dyke Deck" with Images of Queer Contemporaries
The artist has launched a Kickstarter to fund her project, which is partially an homage to Catherine Opie's "Dyke Deck," updated to celebrate a wider spectrum of queerness.