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Throughout its historical past, the Whitney Biennial has usually mirrored the heated discourse of the artwork world, welcoming provocative work which may ruffle feathers. But museum officers and curators stated they have been taken abruptly by a message that exposed itself within the flickering lights of a neon set up. On Wednesday night the Whitney […] More

Aesthetically, Los Angeles is usually a multitude. Unplanned, mismatched buildings sprout like fungus among the many grid of its streets, whose orderly classicism is commonly disrupted by tectonically induced hills. Curbs crumble and sidewalks crack beneath telegraph poles festooned with cables. Flamboyant succulents mingle with scrubby native vegetation. What aesthetic perfection Los Angeles presents is […] More

Len Sirowitz, an award-winning promoting artwork director whose inventive work within the Sixties included memorable print advertisements for the Volkswagen Beetle — like one declaring, “Ugly is barely skin-deep” — and a marketing campaign for Mobil through which a automobile was dropped off a 10-story constructing to make a degree concerning the perils of dashing, […] More

The Whitney Biennial, New York’s most outstanding showcase of latest American (or American-ish) artwork, thrives on argument: in print, in remark threads, in barrooms and generally within the galleries themselves. Its 81st version opens Thursday to museum members and to the general public on March 20, and it introduces a “dissonant refrain” — within the […] More

In Venice, an individual is surrounded by gold. It garments the statue of the archangel Gabriel atop the bell tower on St. Mark’s Square and glistens within the mosaics on the facade of St. Mark’s Basilica, aptly nicknamed “the Golden Church.” It generally seems within the artisanal glass from the island of Murano, on gondola […] More

This week, Holland Cotter covers the Studio Museum in Harlem’s residency outcomes, Sarah Grilo’s little-seen work and Mary Lucier’s experimental and heartfelt video artwork. More

The cedar-shingled home that Andre Dubus III constructed for his household within the seaside city of Newbury, Mass., has 4 ranges that sprawl throughout 6,000 sq. toes, with loads of rooms that would have made a pleasant author’s workplace. But Mr. Dubus plies his commerce down within the mechanical room, close to the train gear […] More

Second time’s the appeal? A yr after the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum in Washington named its founding director — solely to have the candidate withdraw earlier than her official begin date — the museum is making an attempt once more. It has chosen Elizabeth C. Babcock, the president and chief government of Forever Balboa […] More

For practically 100 years, a 55-foot-long mural was the backdrop to a high-class restaurant at Tate Britain. As diners quaffed nice wine and ate costly dishes, they might look on the portray by Rex Whistler depicting a searching party driving by means of a fantastical panorama. Few guests to the London artwork museum appeared to […] More

There’s a youthquake underway at one in every of France’s oldest establishments. The Mobilier National, the nationwide repository of furnishings and the ornamental arts, was formally established within the seventeenth century below King Louis XIV. Now housed in an enormous Art Deco complicated within the thirteenth Arrondissement — on land that was as soon as […] More

What in regards to the poster for “Little Miss Sunshine”? LIPPERT This is a daring and thrilling poster due to all of the detrimental area. She selected to basically not use two-thirds of the poster and have or not it’s a vibrant college bus yellow that’s pushing down on the household, and so they’re all […] More

Max Hardy, who helped deliver a brand new stage of chef-driven but accessible delicacies to his native Detroit, and who was extensively thought-about among the many most promising of a younger technology of Black culinary stars, died on Monday. He was 40. His publicist, David E. Rudolph, introduced the dying however didn’t present a trigger […] More