Why Jasper Johns Is an Icon of 20th-Century Painting
Artsy - This past fall, the 87-year-old American artist Jasper Johns revealed plans to turn his 170-acre retreat in rural Sharon, Connecticut, into a...
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FAREWELL OUR GLOBALISM
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 Jan...
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. Th...
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 t...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 exquisi...
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 hist...