Art Review
Shu Lea Cheang’s Art of Hacking
Cheang is concerned with the ways technology enables commodification and control, from communication to nourishment to sex.
Munich
Art
Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism
A show at Munich’s Lenbachhaus museum is an urgent study in the meaningful art-political networks that stressed solidarity and unity over isolation.
News
This Is the Painting a German Museum Worker Snuck Into a Show
The Guardian published a photo of the now-terminated technician’s artwork, along with details about his motive for secretly installing it in the museum.
News
German Museum Employee Fired After Secretly Hanging Up His Own Painting
Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne terminated the 51-year-old artist and called in the police to investigate.
Art
Theaster Gates's Emotional Confrontation With Racism
With Black Chapel, Gates references the racism embedded in modernism’s failure to adequately acknowledge non-white sources of inspiration.
News
Nazi-Era Munich Trove Includes 39 Toulouse-Lautrec Works
Among the 1,406 artworks discovered throughout the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt are 39 pieces by French painter and printmaker Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The works are all drawings and prints.
News
See 25 Artworks from Newly Discovered Nazi-era Art Stash
In an about-face, the German government announced Monday a new, accelerated policy for the 1,406 paintings discovered in a 2011 raid on Cornelius Gurlitt's Munich apartment, promising a task force and a speedy release of information about the cache.