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Art in America - First the good news. “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,” now appearing at the Guggenheim Museum in New York through January 7, samples China’s most fertile and challenging post-Ma...
Hito Steyerl Is an Artist With Power: She Uses It for Change
NY Times - BERLIN — Blurry selfies, pixelated screen shots, Photoshop disasters: Low-quality, mass-reproduced pictures flood our screens every day. They are easy to dismiss, but the German artist Hito Steyerl m...
Why the Getty Center’s Art Stayed Put as Fires Raged Nearby
The New York Times - Visitors come to the Getty Center in Los Angeles to see Vincent van Gogh’s irises and other great works. What they don’t see is the reason that these masterpieces could stay put while thous...
Hudson Yards centerpiece “Vessel” tops out
The Architects Newspaper - The 150-foot tall, bronzed-steel and concrete Vessel is designed to react to its surroundings in both material and function. Containing over 2,400 steps, 80 landings and 154 flights o...
Native American Artists Garner Recognition at Last
The Art Newspaper - Controversy over the disputed Cherokee identity of the artist Jimmie Durham—who is not enrolled in any tribe—has erupted this year as his major retrospective, organised by the Hammer Museum ...
Looking for America at Art Basel Miami Beach
Hyperallergic - The 16th incarnation of Art Basel Miami Beach was supposed to have “a new energy,” as Noah Horowitz, director of the Americas for Art Basel, told the New York Times. It’s true. The booths are la...
Why Experts Don’t Believe This Is a Rare First Map of America
NY Times - The map seemed to be an unbelievable find, an unknown fifth original of the rarest of documents, a vision of the world, circa 1507, by the famed German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. It features ...
Lasers and water gel used to restore Medieval altarpiece from Rimini
The Art Newspaper - Conservators at Frankfurt’s Liebieghaus museum are restoring the Rimini Altar, one of the best-preserved, largest and most exquisite late Medieval sculptural ensembles made from fragile alab...
German museums report 2.5 million drop in visitor numbers in 2016
The Art Newspaper - The number of visits to German museums fell by 2.2% in 2016 from the previous year, with museums focussed on art and cultural history bearing the brunt of the decline, according to the Germa...
A Puzzle Game Inspired by the Mathematics of Islamic Art
Hyperallergic - “I think we can explore mathematics in different ways,” game developer Mahdi Bahrami told Hyperallergic. “If someone is not able to solve an equation on paper, that doesn’t mean he she is bad a...