Art
The New Broad Museum Brings LA Lots of Blue-Chip Art and a Few Surprises
LOS ANGELES — The wait is over. After a 15-month delay, ballooning costs, and lawsuits, the Broad Museum is finally set to open this Sunday in downtown Los Angeles.
Review
Art
A New Documentary Champions the Photographer Who Captured Wright, Calder, and Nevelson
Photographers who shoot the work of famous artists are rarely celebrated in their own right, but a new documentary shifts the focus onto the man responsible for some of the most iconic images we have of Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, and Louise Nevelson.
Performance
Three Famous Artists Collaborate on One Empty Spectacle
Tree of Codes brings together the efforts of three major names from three different disciplines: Wayne McGregor, the award-winning British choreographer; Danish-Icelandic visual artist and light wizard Olafur Eliasson; and electronic music producer Jamie xx, one third of the band the xx.
Performance
A Dance About Capitalism Falls Prey to Its Machinations
Early in koosil-ja’s new show I Am Capitalism, which ran at The Kitchen last week, she spoke through recorded voice-overs of a desire to acquire dances.
Art
Painting Everday Objects in All Their Glory
Painting reached a turning point with Paul Cézanne wherein a picture would no longer be conceived simply as a window onto the world with the artist at a remove from the act of creating.
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A Barbara Hepworth Retrospective Hampered by Her Male Contemporaries
LONDON — Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World marks one of the last exhibitions backed by the outgoing Tate Britain director, Penelope Curtis.
Art
It’s Hard Not to Like New York’s Harborside Photo Festival
Last weekend, the 2015 edition of Photoville opened the doors of its repurposed shipping containers for a two-week fair of photography.
Art
Various Visions of the Future in NYC's First New Subway Station in 25 Years
It only took a day after Sunday's opening for a candy bar wrapper to lodge beneath the new wooden bench of the 34th Street-Hudson Yards platform, and vague stains to appear on the station's light granite floor tiles.
Art
Restaging a Turning Point in Japan's 1920s Avant-Garde
Art history doesn’t have to live in the past, as proved by the Flux Factory exhibition Ero Guro Nansensu, which closes today.
Art
An Early Installation Art Maverick Gets Her Due with a Madrid Retrospective
MADRID — The short but plentiful career of US installation artist Ree Morton, surveyed at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid in Ree Morton: Be a Place, Place an Image, Imagine a Poem, reminds us there are still many untold histories of 20th century women artists.
Books
The Resurrection of a Lost 19th-Century Butterfly Manuscript
Titian Peale could have been the first major American lepidopterist, but instead his five decades of vibrant butterfly illustrations and research languished, unpublished until 130 years after his death.
Art
A Polychromatic Playground of Inflatable Sculptures
DETROIT — Hey, denizens of the art world, let’s take a moment to consider the radical implications of chilling the fuck out for a minute.