“Tropicália was a movement that lasted just short of a year, spanning from Hélio Oiticica’s 1967 art installation of the same name, wherein viewers walked along a tropical sand path only to come face-to-face with a television set, to the debut of a TV show, wherein its constituents buried the movement on-air. But [it] modernized Brazilian culture just as the country’s ruling military junta began to strangle democracy and expression.”
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Hokusai’s Picture Book Of Everyday Life In Edo-Era Japan
“Although most famous for his landscapes in his woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, he drew just about everything.”
They’re Here! The Finalists For The 2016 Bad Sex In Fiction Award
None of these six nominees are as bad as the ghastly passage that won Morrissey the trophy last year, but nevertheless … (includes explanation of why Donald Trump was disqualified from the contest)
Customs Withheld These Paintings At The Airport For Three Months Because They Didn’t Count As ‘Art’
Bjarne Melgaard sent 16 of his works from his studio in New York to his gallery in Oslo – which couldn’t collect them without paying $153,000 in VAT because customs agents insisted the paintings didn’t qualify for tax-free status. You see, they weren’t, as regulations require, “executed entirely by hand.”
Americans Are Increasingly Staying Where They Are. So Why Does The Myth That We’re More Transient Persist?
The data show Americans move geographically less. So what is the cause? “My best guess is that the greatest single factor in the great settling down was the increasing physical and economic security of US life.”
A Lyrical Essay About The Post-Election Devastation
“We turned to ritual, to dance, to quiet conversations that played softly like a piano in the dark, to the old ways, to prayer, to cussing, to tears, to side eye, to righteous pettiness, to shade throwing, to memes, to each other. Increasingly, we turned to song. This was hardly by chance.”
The Artwork Of Identity (That Goes On Despite The Election)
Artist Genevieve Gaignard’s self-portraits, in which she mixes Cindy Sherman and Carrie Mae Weems with her own performance style, says “Maybe it can help [viewers] be more open and understanding to lifestyles, different people’s existence and upbringings, class and gender. I feel like that’s what’s being talked about right now.”
The West’s Invasion Of Iraq Unleashed Countless Horrors, And So Rebuilding Nimrud Would Be The Least We Could Do
Add the historic city of Nimrud (Nimrod in the U.S.) to the list of places ISIS has utterly destroyed. But hey, technology: “Digital scanning, robot etching and 3D reproduction can recreate these monuments, to an exactness unknown to past attempts at such reinstatement. Extrusion techniques can rebuild monuments using the dust of the ruins themselves.”
Anselm Kiefer Wants To Cancel His First Exhibition In China
He says he wasn’t consulted about it and is very upset about it. (But the Beijing museum mounting the show says it’s going ahead anyway.)
What Playwright Sarah Ruhl Said After The Election
“I call upon the gods of endurance to protect all of us and give us hope. The gods who allow art to flourish during tyrannical regimes through the pursuit of metaphor — think of Ionesco, Brecht, Havel, Fugard, Boal. The gods of endurance who keep us writing not just during regime change but also during life’s other cruelties.”