Art
9 Thoughts on Funhouse Art, Now with Cat GIFs!
I originally considered writing in a standard review format, but Carsten Höller’s retrospective Decision, currently on view at London’s Hayward Gallery, is more amenable to the listicle form.
Review
Art
From Obsessive Drawings to Sound Sculptures, Mark Mothersbaugh’s Unexpected Art Career
MINNEAPOLIS — Mark Mothersbaugh is so much a part of pop culture that even if you aren’t a fan of his punk band Devo, you’re probably familiar with his music.
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Artworks Cobbled Together from Immigrant Experiences
Art about identity politics, personal history, and cultural heritage is seen all too rarely in Bushwick galleries, where formal and material concerns tend to dominate.
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Inhabiting Other People's Recorded Memories
The group exhibition Memory Burn at bitforms gallery, curated by Chris Romero, explores the devices we use to record our lives as we confront mortality and death.
Books
Dusting Off Victorian Science Specimens, from Two-Faced Kittens to Slug Models
After 25 years of collecting contemporary art, George Loudon's eye was caught by a display of 19th-century glass flowers at Harvard University.
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Rubin Museum Honors Nek Chand, Visionary Artist who Built Paradise from Debris
Following India's independence in 1947, architect Le Corbusier was recruited to design Chandigarh, the country's first planned modern metropolis.
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Bringing a Constellation Down to Earth at a Ruined Castle on the Hudson
For the next two years, a constellation built by human hands over the ruins of a Hudson River castle is mingling with the stars.
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Contemporary Artists Create a New Kind of Order at the Barnes Foundation
PHILADELPHIA — It’s an illuminating mental exercise to ponder: what if Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the pharmaceutical tycoon and physician who assembled an unmatched collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings in Philadelphia, was actually an installation artist before his time?
Performance
Between Now and Nowhere: A Performance Dissects Reality
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — In an age where our attention often frays and never lingers, it is rare to find something that holds it unwaveringly for 60 minutes.
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Fabrics Stained with Colonial Blues
CHICAGO — It is the duality of indigo's beauty and its intimate connection with human degradation that artist Jovencio de la Paz explores in his current exhibition of batik works.
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Dieter Roth’s Chaotic and Cacophonous Gesamtkunstwerk
BERLIN — The exhibition And away with the minutes spins like a rococo confection around the prolific noise music projects of the legendary and influential German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth.
Music
Horses, Lake, Trees, Sweat, Hotel, Sun, Bed, Girl, Phone, Birds, Film, Ski Town, Yard, Mountains, Road, Dandelions, Sun Kil Moon
From chirpy beginning to gloomy end, the new Sun Kil Moon album portrays a man in love with the concrete noun.