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Seated atop a big anamorphous rock in AlUla, an ancient oasis in the Medina region of Saudi Arabia, is an electric blue sculpture of a woman seated in the meditative yogic position called “lotus.” Her legs are crossed while her hands extend out with her palms open on either knee. Her eyes are closed as […] More
Don McCullin is not afraid of the dark. The 84-year-old British photographer, who is famed for his haunting images, is best known for his salient photographs of war and conflict, taken around the world. For 60 years, he has reported on battles and destruction, chronicled starvation and inner-city poverty, and traveled the world working for […] More
A striking exhibition of 18 artists from the African continent looks at how appearances sometimes point to deeper truths. “Now Look Here: The African Art of Appearance,” on view at a pop-up space in Amsterdam through February 23, showcases works by Tabi Benny, Blinky Bill, and Omar Victor Diop alongside 15 other artists in a presentation organized by Renny […] More
For the first time, the American artist Paul McCarthy is having a survey dedicated entirely to his drawings and works on paper, opening this February at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. A provocateur who is best known for his performance and video art, McCarthy’s work is often grotesque and sarcastic, deriding American icons by […] More
When two Russian soldiers arrived to the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 1945, the guards were gone but 7,000 survivors remained, including many children. Now, one of those children, Marta Wise, is among 75 subjects in a poignant new photography exhibition that captures the portraits of Holocaust survivors. The show, “Survivors – Faces of […] More
A portrait of the French playwright and legendary bohemian Alfred Jarry, with his long dark hair and manicured goatee that evokes , appears alongside family photos in Linda Klieger Stillman’s home in Potomac, Maryland. In fact, art and memorabilia related to the proto-Dadaist and inventor of “pataphysics” is scattered all over the house, though some […] More
“Envisioning 2001” is the title of the Museum of the Moving Image’s new exhibition about Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1968 sci-fi opus. The name has a double meaning: The show is about how the director and his team envisioned the film ; but it is also—and this may be an even more fun aspect of the exhibition—a […] More
When Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, decided to reevaluate its North American indigenous art collection, uniting objects from its Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and Yale University Art Gallery for the first time, it looked to the student body to lead the way. It enlisted a trio of students, […] More
