Art
A Shrewd Designer Balances Craft and Commerce
The artisanal has always been seen as a counterweight to the industrial. Both appear in the work of Patricia Urquiola.
Review
Art
An Argentine Collective of Political Art, Re-examined
Alexander Apóstol’s current exhibition at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires doubles as a show of new work by a contemporary conceptual artist and a retrospective of the 1968 events.
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When Artists Move from the Margins to the Center
The most powerful outsider artworks in Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery of Art evoke ideals about all artists: the belief, for example, that they are distinct from non-artists.
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Rediscovering Edward Melcarth, a Gay, Communist Visionary
Kentucky-born artist Edward Melcarth dared to live as an openly homosexual man and did not hide his support for communism.
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A Homecoming for Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw
For fans of Kelley and Shaw, Michigan Stories is a kind of origin story, a way to decipher the work of two multifaceted and prolific artists.
Art
Leon Golub’s Cycles of History
Golub’s paintings cast the West’s Greco-Roman heritage not as a reflection of reason and order, but as a manifestation of its latent savagery.
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Float Past Flying Fishes and Burning Churches in a VR Bosch Painting
This VR interpretation of Hieronymus Bosch's “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” was the most fun I’ve ever had with a painting.
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Jazz, Mardis Gras, and Musical History at the New Orleans Triennial
An exhibition at Prospect 4 is showcasing magnificent Mardi Gras costumes, collaged tape cases made by Louis Armstrong, and more.
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The Political Truths That Ground Our Athletic Heroes
These men and women are our dreams, manifesting a grace that the rest of us lack — a grace we expect to stay aloft, in the air.
Books
Max Ernst’s Collage Novels Are Part Séance, Part Victorian Underworld, and All Uncanny
Ernst’s trailblazing “collage novels" employ the dreamlike conjunction — the fusion or juxtaposition of unlike elements whose collision makes perfect sense, in a free-associated way.
Art
The Climate Museum Captures the Gravity of a Global Crisis
The world's first climate change museum opens its inaugural exhibition, exploring polar ice through art at the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan.
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Searching for the Roots of Empathy in Rituals of Care
In Kerry Tribe's video we see both actors playing patients and medical students acting as though they were doctors, but the aim is for something real: empathy.