Art
Sarah Lucas Makes Male Privilege Her Own
Filled with fried egg breasts and cucumber phalluses, Sarah Lucas's new retrospective at the New Museum illuminates her wry subversion of the patriarchal art historical canon.
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Books
Aerial Photographs Reveal the Environmental Scars of American Industry
In the 1980s, photographer David T. Hanson captured aerial views of Superfund sites, revealing the environmental toll of American industry.
Art
Egon Schiele’s Quivering Line Tells All
An exhibition full of drawings shines light on the history of the line in this artist’s work.
Opinion
Bloody Hell, Marc Quinn Taps Refugees for Latest Bloody Artwork
A new project that is slated to appear in front of the New York Public Library's main branch on Fifth Avenue will contain the blood of refugees.
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After $31 Million Sale of 3,000-Year-Old Assyrian Relief, Experts and Artists Denounce Christie’s
Critics call the recent sale, which shattered previous world records for Assyrian art sales, a callous example of the art market profiting from suffering in the Middle East. Experts speculate that ISIS's destruction of cultural heritage sites may have boosted the value of the work.
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Publishers Say They Were Harassed by Airport TSA Returning from a New York Art Book Fair
David King and Jaime Raybin say they were berated by TSA at LaGuardia Airport about copies of Skull Microwave, a controversial book by political artist Marlos E'vans.
Announcement
VCUarts Kinetic Imaging Seeks MFA Candidates for 2019
KI offers a hybrid, in-depth inquiry into emerging media, video, sound, and animated arts.
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In Museo, Two Slackers Carry Out an Epic Art Heist
Director Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest film reconstructs the 1985 theft of nearly 150 pre-Hispanic artifacts from a Mexico City museum.
Art
How Art Fails at the São Paulo Biennial
Recognizing that art can and does fail gave me room to think about my own tendencies and predilections as I walked through the exhibition.
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Week in Review: Syrian National Museum Reopens and La Sagrada Familia Fined $141M
An artist vandalized Francisco Franco’s tomb, Venice museums reopen after unprecedented flooding, and more.
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A Psych Ward-Inspired Trove of Outsider Art Finally Sees the Light
David Byrd's hundreds of haunting oil paintings, inspired by his job at a psychiatric ward of a VA hospital, were hidden from the public for decades, until a visit from a neighbor led the then-87-year-old outsider artist to land his first gallery show.
Performance
Can You Still Stomach the US Constitution?
Heidi Schreck’s new play at the New York Theatre Workshop raises some difficult questions about how strong the foundations of American democracy are when Trump sits in the White House.