Art
Touch Screens and Tech Art Take Over Mexico City
MEXICO CITY — A festival is underway in this megalopolis with the ambitious proposal to impose ephemeral, technology-based public art on Chilangos as they go about their daily lives.
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Art
Beyond Voodoo: Defying Expectations of Haitian Art
PARIS — Winter has been kind to art lovers in Paris.
Art
When Women Fought Nukes with Anarchy and Won
Brooklyn's Interference Archive is showcasing the work of the women who occupied the area surrounding England's cruise missile installation, reshaping British public opinion and attracting international attention to the nuclear arms race.
Art
A Gallery Looks Back on 40 Years of Showing Art in Brazil
Global recessions and armed crackdowns on protests are undoubtedly bad for art, but the old adage that hardship and suffering fuels creativity comes to mind when looking back at Brazil in the 1970s and considering the improbable success of Galeria Luisa Strina.
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Wonders of the World, Through the Lens of the Hive Mind
Have we been here before? Will we all be in this same spot again soon? Corinne Vionnet’s aggregate compositions provoke a puzzling, often beautiful feeling of déjà vu.
Books
Lamenting the Demise of the Culture Class, Again
I can't remember being so deeply frustrated by a book that I assumed I would like and find informative.
Art
The Monumental Loneliness of Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth: Photographs, a small exhibition currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents a sampling of its subject’s modes: his well-known Museum Photographs, portraits, architectural photographs, and large color works.
Art
Reading Between the Lines
CHICAGO — The first thing that strikes you about Randi Russo’s show of paintings at Thomas Masters Gallery is the lines, swirling and looping around every canvas like an automatic drawing taken to an extreme degree.
Art
Getting Lost in David Altmejd's Hall of Mirrors
PARIS — Young New York-based Canadian artist David Altmejd’s remarkably ambitious retrospective exhibition of sculpture at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris played pithily with many current intellectual strands.
Art
Sharing Amateur Photographers' Shots from the New York World's Fairs
With the ostentatious pavilions gleaming during the day, and the fountains and futuristic statuary illuminated at night, the World's Fairs in New York were a photographer's dream.
Art
Tom Dale's Pursuit of Nothingness
SOUTHAMPTON, UK — The British artist Tom Dale works at a time when speed has lost its innocence.
Art
Cyberfeminists Go Deep on Big Data, Privacy, and Surveillance
In mid-December, 12 hackers, artists, coders, and activists gathered to tackle issues of privacy, surveillance, anonymity, and big data as they manifest in our society.