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Rem Koolhaas’s ‘Countryside’ Exhibition at the Guggenheim Suggests That the Architect Doesn’t Know What the Museum-Going Public Wants
16 March 2020, 03:30
The Guggenheim’s current exhibition, “Countryside, The Future,” is based on a fundamentally silly premise: that after 40-plus years of primarily building in, and theorizing on, cities, which account for roughly 2 percent of the earth’s surface, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas is a reliable authority on the other 98 percent of the globe. In his assertion […] More
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Kara Walker’s New Drawings Insert Former President Barack Obama Into Art-Historical Allegories—See Images Here
13 March 2020, 19:37
In Kara Walker’s new show at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., there’s a drawing of former President Barack Obama as Othello, the titular Moorish general of Shakespeare’s 16th-century tragedy, holding the head of his enemy, Iago—who looks a lot like Donald Trump. It’s one of several recent drawings by the artist depicting Obama in allegorical scenes […] More
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Experimental Artist Anicka Yi, Who Has Made Art With AI, Insects, and Smells, Is Tapped for the Next Tate Turbine Hall Commission
13 March 2020, 14:13
Anicka Yi has created giant kelp pods filled with animatronic insects, injected live snails with oxytocin, and developed soil whose environment is governed by A.I. Later this year, her unique brand of oddball technology-infused art will receive its largest stage yet. The Korean-American artist has been chosen to create the next Turbine Hall commission at […] More
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There’s Real Magic in Agnes Pelton Occult Paintings, But Not the Kind You Think
13 March 2020, 11:28
Consider two paintings. One is (1933), by the early 20th century spiritual-abstractionist painter Agnes Pelton. She is the star of a show that has just arrived at the Whitney Museum, part of a wave of recent interest in experimental art by previously unsung or undersung female artists working in esoteric or occult traditions, a vogue that is […] More
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“You won’t see what I’ve become” by Beast in North Italy
13 March 2020, 09:39
The Beast Collective has recently completed one of their largest outdoor installations to date, in the countryside of Emilia, North Italy. Entitled “You won’t see what I have become”, this giant piece is an unauthorized 6 x 18 meters paste-up on one of the bridge’s pillars that connect the industrial area to the rural one, […] More
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In the Face of Sanctions, Supporting Artists in Iran is Difficult. One Ambitious Collector Is Trying to Change That
12 March 2020, 19:57
In the winter of 2017, an exhibition of contemporary Iranian art opened at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, drawing special attention because it coincided with President Trump’s then-recent travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries. The show would travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston that same year, playing an important role as cultural ambassador during a […] More
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‘It’s Not Black and White’: Watch Vietnamese Photographer An-My Lê Make Images That Reveal the Complexity of War
12 March 2020, 18:30
The photographer An-My Lê was born in 1960 in Saigon during the height of the Vietnam War. She knew nothing else growing up. “War was a part of life for us…it’s something we take in stride,” she told Art21 in an exclusive interview back in 2007. She and her parents fled Vietnam, eventually landing in the […] More
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Anish Kapoor Will Unveil His First Vantablack Sculptures During the Venice Biennale, Dazzling Visitors With the Blackest Black Ever Made
12 March 2020, 17:01
What does Anish Kapoor have to show for his controversial monopoly on Vantablack, the self-proclaimed “blackest material in the universe”? The world will find out during next year’s Venice Biennale, when Kapoor unveils a series of works made with the technologically-advanced substance at the Galléria dell’Accademia. When London aerospace company Surrey NanoSystems announced that they had invented a “super […] More

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Rem Koolhaas’s ‘Countryside’ Exhibition at the Guggenheim Suggests That the Architect Doesn’t Know What the Museum-Going Public Wants

Kara Walker’s New Drawings Insert Former President Barack Obama Into Art-Historical Allegories—See Images Here

Experimental Artist Anicka Yi, Who Has Made Art With AI, Insects, and Smells, Is Tapped for the Next Tate Turbine Hall Commission

There’s Real Magic in Agnes Pelton Occult Paintings, But Not the Kind You Think

“You won’t see what I’ve become” by Beast in North Italy

In the Face of Sanctions, Supporting Artists in Iran is Difficult. One Ambitious Collector Is Trying to Change That

‘It’s Not Black and White’: Watch Vietnamese Photographer An-My Lê Make Images That Reveal the Complexity of War

Anish Kapoor Will Unveil His First Vantablack Sculptures During the Venice Biennale, Dazzling Visitors With the Blackest Black Ever Made

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