Snapshots from Miami
Some things we saw at the Basel art fair (and beyond) Read More
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Author Archives: Robin Cembalest
Postcards from Miami
Snapshots from Miami during fair time. Check back this week for updates… Read More
The Military Is Present
Using outreach, performance, video, photography, and therapy, artists and museums are devising new ways to connect with veterans—and to bring their stories to a wider audience Read More
In a Post-Audubon Era, Things Can Take a Nasty Tern
Ralph Steadman, Walton Ford, and other artists conjure extinct bird species, real and imagined Read More
What Does Corruption Look Like?
Meet the Kienholz Ozymandias, as clueless as the deluded despot in the famous Shelley sonnet Read More
A Climate Change in the Art World?
The art community is digging out, drying off, counting its losses, helping its neighbors–and starting to prepare for the hurricanes of the future Read More
Skeletons Out of the Closet
A survey of museum tours celebrating Halloween, Day of the Dead, and more Read More
From Kongo to Othello to Tango to Museum Shows
Artists and scholars are taking increasingly nuanced approaches to tracking the image–and influence–of Africans in Western art Read More
J.R. in New York: Keeping It Rio
Favela where the French street artist staged “Women Are Heroes” emerges at Ford Foundation’s headquarters
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The Thing’s the Plays: Public Theater’s New Shakespeare Machine
Artist Ben Rubin remixes 37 works in a site-specific, L.E.D-lit, linguistic-supercollider sculpture (that’s also a chandelier) Read More
Old Masters of Our Domain
Contemporary artists rock art-history classics to pay homage, show off, have fun, and comment on issues like race and class Read More
This Is Not a Pipe–But It IS a Newly Discovered Magritte
A new book gathers 130 previously unpublished and recently authenticated works by the Belgian Surrealist, including a portrait of Jesus, erotic pictures, and that famous cryptic pipe Read More
