Art
Michael Rakowitz Recreates a Sculpture Destroyed by ISIS for London’s Trafalgar Square
The latest fourth plinth commission is a full-scale recreation of a winged bull sculpture from 700 BCE entirely clad in Iraqi date cans.
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The Delights of Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons, in NYC for the First Time
The Frick Collection hosts the North American debut of Francisco de Zurbarán's Jacob and His Twelve Sons, a Spanish Golden Age series with mysterious origins.
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Andreas Gursky Captures the Pandemonium of Industrialized Overproduction
The photographer reproduces a sense of economic spectacle suffused with an encroaching disbelief in its benefits in his retrospective at the newly renovated Hayward Gallery.
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Two Chicago Exhibitions Elaborate on Emptiness and Space
Though the two shows examine the void in distinctly different ways, only one gets it right.
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A Message to the Future from Artists on the Front Lines of Sea-Level Rise
In Miami, sea-level rise is not a science fictional future — it’s a present-day reality that artists must reckon with.
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Richard Mosse Uses Military Equipment to Show the Reach of the Surveillance State
The photographer uses a heat-sensing camera to turn a critical eye towards governments’ insufficient responses to a humanitarian crisis.
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Sondra Perry's First Solo European Show Engulfs Visitors in Turner's "The Slave Ship"
Typhoon Coming On challenges visitors to consider the UK’s complicity in the dehumanisation of black people.
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Howardena Pindell Gets Her First Major Museum Survey
A survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago illustrates how the artist shifted from formalist painting to personal, political art.
Music
Four Bands on Sex, Politics, and the Weather
New albums by Rhye, Physically Sick, Toni Braxton, and Johnny Jewel share a warped relationship to their ostensible themes.
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Sean Sullivan's Recordings of Sounds and Colors
Inspired by Dada, Sullivan has transformed its dark, destructive impulses into something else.
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Steve DiBenedetto’s Playground of Paint
DiBenedetto is exploring a realm where figuration and abstraction have collapsed, and the body and the paint are inseparable.
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Danh Vo's Elegy for Democracy
Drawing on many genres and styles, Vo meditates on history, freedom, love, faith, and death.