Art
A Bowling Alley Transforms into a 20,000-Square-Foot Trippy Art Experience
SANTA FE — Inside an old bowling alley here, in an industrial district a few miles south of the well-trodden, gallery-lined Canyon Road, there is a house.
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Art
A Video Game Inspired by Philip K. Dick's Sci-Fi Worlds
The developers of Californium call their game a "love letter to Philip K. Dick."
Art
Found Material Sculptures that Radiate Residual Energy
DETROIT — Perhaps I should preface my discussion of Homage: Regular Folk with a brief declaration of my own sentiments regarding the energetic qualities of inanimate objects.
Art
Documenting the Performance of Nationalism at the Turkish Olympics
MOSCOW — The Turkish Olympics imitate the internal configuration of Turkish identity without being held accountable for its many contradictions, uncertainties, and catastrophes.
Art
An Artist and an Actor Test the Magic of Film
“It’s hard to paint around a cloud,” said Tacita Dean the other day.
Film
The Ritualized Anger of a Queer Poet
In The Book of Conrad, a documentary profiling the life and creative practice of poet CAConrad, we see anger anew: as the impulse behind living, behind ritual, even behind prayer.
Art
A New Hong Kong Museum Exposes China’s Censored Memories (Part 2)
HONG KONG — After the Tiananmen uprising and ensuring crackdown in 1989, the Chinese art world nosedived in a stark and different direction.
Books
Photos Capture the Rise of a Carefully Crafted Chinese Celebrity
The name of Chinese actress and pop singer Fan Bingbing has been cropping up more and more frequently in the headlines of Western news publications.
Books
The Daring, "Degenerate" Book Jackets of the Weimar Republic
Weimar book artists mashed up the styles of new art movements — Expressionism, New Objectivity, Constructivism, plus photography — to design unique and politically provocative covers and jackets.
Books
Art Nouveau’s Deep Sea Muse
Art Nouveau's organic shapes surfaced thanks to some underwater inspiration.
Art
Cary Leibowitz and the Comedy of Contempt
Cary Leibowitz seems to want to make us laugh.
Art
Contradictory Narratives of Contemporary Art, Informed by Jewish Thought
Unorthodox, which addresses how art today might embrace the kind of complexity we demand from politics and history, is a large catalogue of paradoxes, or, in more material terms, of objects whose cultural significance is still ambiguous.