Art
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young AI
An LED display loops a message in Lawrence Lek's installation, which prompts the question “inside the game, can anybody tell the difference between art and the world?”
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Fight to Preserve Net Neutrality Heads to the US House of Representatives
With less than a month before the FCC is due to repeal rules protecting the open internet, a measure to save it still needs to be approved by the House of Representatives and President Trump.
Art
Traces of Human Folly in the Alpine Landscapes that Inspired Frankenstein
British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews explored the Alps where Mary Shelley imagined Frankenstein, and the nuclear bunkers there that recall a modern dark side to scientific progress.
Books
A Compendium of Places with Sad Names, from Despair Island to Mount Hopeless
For Triste Tropique, Topographies of Sadness, Damien Rudd sought out the world's glummest-sounding spaces.
Art
Painterly Visions of Being All Too Human
At best, All Too Human shows well known artists at an intriguing new angle and revisits lesser known names, but at worst makes some perplexing curatorial choices which defy its own set of rules, stretching relevance through some optimistic inclusions.
Art
Fate of Midcentury Mural in Mexico City Still Uncertain After 2017 Quake
One of the most ambitious muralist projects in Mexico City has been the victim of two major earthquakes. Now the building on which the murals are painted will be demolished.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: 3,800 smuggled artifacts bought by Hobby Lobby were returned to Iraq, two women wearing LGBTQ rainbow pins were attacked at Beijing's 798 Art District, and the British Museum revealed plans to put a faux prehistoric cave painting by Banksy back on display.
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MoMA Acquires 324 Works on Paper and New Auction Records for Kazimir Malevich and Kerry James Marshall
The Museum of Modern Art acquired 324 works from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, and new auction records for Kazimir Malevich, Kerry James Marshall, and David Hockney were set at this week's spring sales at Christie's and Sotheby's.
In Brief
Cindy Sherman Turns Her Instagram into an Inflatable Pool Float
The smartphone-shaped float features one of the artist's distinctive, distorted selfies.
Art
Looking Back on William Hawkins, the Outsider Artist Who Became Wildly Popular in His 80s
There is this sense, in looking at Hawkins's bold and humorous paintings, of returning to something one has always known.
Interview
Judy Ledgerwood on Finding Pattern and Decoration in Everyday Life
Judy Ledgerwood discusses her exhibition Far From the Tree in the context of the 40th anniversary of the Pattern and Decoration movement.
Art
Deciphering Inka Essenhigh’s Blurred Visions
Essenhigh reveals a freedom that resonates with all manner of fusion: of figure and design, of abstraction and narrative, of sentiment and humor, and more generally, of ambitious painting with a readable narrative.