How Artists Are Reframing Climate Doom
A silicone cast of a peach tree from her garden that failed to survive Los Angelesâs heat and drought hangs upside down from the ceiling, with bits of delicate bark clinging to its limp branches.
FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor
When I asked about Charli XCXâs âBRATâ and BeyoncĂ©âs âRenaissanceââtwo of the biggest club albums of the past several years, each backed by expensive arena tours and hefty production budgetsâshe distanced herself from those records, calling them âbrilliantâ but âcommercial.â Where they had borrowed from some of the same scenes, she told me, â âEusexuaâ was born from a crevice of subculture.â (Reconciling her celebrity status with her genuine desire to be immersed inâand regarded asâpart of the underground can be a challenge.
Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire
Exiting through the lobby, you couldnât miss a familiar, heartening post-screening buzz: sounds of laughter and exasperation; hesitant, hazardous attempts at analysis; confused variations on âWhat was that all about?â We could have just seen âEraserheadâ or âBlue Velvet,â or stumbled out of âMulholland Drive,â as some friends and I did, not too far away, more than two decades earlier.
Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities
Other Biden appointees included the artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, the curator Nora Halpern, the actors George Clooney, Jennifer Garner and Kerry Washington, the playwright Anna Deavere Smith, the screenwriter and producer Shonda Rhimes and Steve Israel, a former US representative for New York.
Ayesha Singhâs India Art Fair tent commission remembers the forgotten women of Indian architecture
The inclusion of Begum adds a further political layer to the work: in 2023, Indiaâs National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) removed significant sections of Mughal history from school textbooks under the guise of ârationalisingâ the syllabus.
âMoâ âs Urgent, Uneven Homecoming
Itâs pulled in less compelling directions by the broad caricatures who now populate the edges of the story, including a marriage-crazed blonde hottie Mo humors until he canât, and a recently green-card-approved friend whose gun collection seems considerably more expansive than his English-language vocabulary.
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With examples including rebellious colonistsâ proud adoption of âYankee Doodleâ as their anthemâthe song was initially sung by British troops, to make fun of supposedly unsophisticated localsâand the emergence of blackface minstrelsy, Zelnik shows how white settlers used playfulness and humor to position themselves as the rightful owners of the land, to the exclusion not only of foppish Brits but also of Indigenous and Black Americans.
San Franciscoâs growing art week and local scene shine at Fog Design+Art
Hauser & Wirth also had strong opening day sales, selling more than a dozen pieces, including a landscape painting so geometric as to almost feel hallucinatory by Jeffrey Gibson for $100,000 and the 38-year-old artist Avery Singerâs Poker Players (study) for $575,000.
RISDâs Board Rejects Israel Divestment Proposal
(Administrations at Trinity, Oberlin College, Brown University and many others have similarly rejected proposals to divest funds from companies with business interests in Israel.)
Christieâs Sells Two Winslow Homer Watercolors Appraised On Antiques Roadshow
Krulik said applicants send in images of items for appraisal and get a ticket, but in-person viewing is necessary to determine if an artwork isnât a reproduction or an oleograph, a print textured to resemble an oil painting.
How Much of the Government Can Donald Trump Dismantle?
In 2018, an anonymous Op-Ed in the New York Times, âI Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,â described internal efforts to curb the Presidentâs impulses, and became a book the following year, âA Warning.â The author eventually revealed himself as Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security.
Christieâs to host exhibition of works from owner François Pinaultâs collection in Los Angeles
The non-selling show, called Eye Contact: An Invitation to the Pinault Collection, is set to run from 22 January to 28 March, coinciding with the art world's migration to Los Angeles for the annual Frieze fair starting on 20 February.
Watercolour submitted online to Christie’s found to be by Turner
A double-sided portrait by the folk portraitist Ammi Phillips from around 1815, found in a storage unit in California before being submitted to Christieâs via its public website, is a highlight of its Important Americana auction on 24 January (est $40,000-$80,000).
Joe Average, Canadian artist and Aids activist, has died, aged 67
In 2002, then Vancouver mayor Philip Owen issued a civic proclamation to designate 3 November as âJoe Average Dayâ, acknowledging his efforts to fight homophobia and assist Aids charities such as A Loving Spoonful.
UK export bar placed on rare 17th-century Fairhaven Panels worth ÂŁ1.6m
Pippa Shirley, a member of the reviewing committee, says: âThe panels have much to tell us about links between artistic workshops and practices, the trade in precious materials, patronage and taste, not to mention the connection to the highly significant Fairhaven collections.
Why Is It So Hard to Build a Holocaust Memorial in London?
Depending on who you ask, the memorial complex is either a bad idea, an ugly thing, pushed through by well-meaning but incompetent (and mainly non-Jewish) politicians, who talk in bromides about British values and âthe need to fight hatred and prejudice in all its forms,â or a powerful new landmark, a venue for difficult conversations about the Holocaust and the current climate of antisemitism, catalyzed by the war in the Middle East.
2025 Preview: 20 Museum Openings, Art Exhibitions, and Biennials to Look Forward To
Years in the making and 300,000 square feet in scale, the museum has been steadily acquiring top-dollar artworks, including a Frida Kahlo self-portrait, a Robert Colescott painting of George Washington, and archives related to Black cinema and Judith F. Bacaâs Great Wall of Los Angeles.