3+ hour, 18+ min ago   (769+ words) The Surrealist Menagerie: Strange Beasts & Fantastic Visions, by the Zoologist and Surrealist Desmond Morris, considers Frida Kahlo and more. Starfish, scorpions, swallows, and sheep—once you look, animals are everywhere in Surrealist paintings. These and many other creatures are the…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (379+ words) What follows is a conversation with Barney that transpired during the 30-minute drive from Aspen to the town of Snowmass, and then the return ride back. How did the idea for your performance in Aspen last year originate? Had you…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (251+ words) A portrait of an elderly man, newly attributed to the Baroque master Gian Loranzeo Bernini, will be on view at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum. When the exhibition “Bernini—Painter and Sculptor” opens at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum on Dec 2, a…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (170+ words) “Rivers have long served as lifelines for ecological and cultural balance,” writes the artist in a statement on the Walker’s website, “but colonization and industrialization disrupted these reciprocal relationships, imposing systems of control and exploitation with lasting effects. This tension…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (207+ words) By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei Editor’s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. It may be the most clichéd, surface-level inquiry…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (316+ words) The distinguished Indian fashion brand Sabyasachi has partnered with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for a new line of jewelry inspired by the institution’s vast collection. The distinguished Indian fashion brand Sabyasachi has partnered with New York’s Metropolitan…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (448+ words) Sculptor Mitchell Charbonneau’s exhibitions cohere in spare arrangements of banal detritus. Mitchell Charbonneau’s studio is one of many among a warren of fabrication shops and ateliers at Permanent Maintenance, an artist-run space in the New York neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (225+ words) The University of Bonn in Germany announced last week that numerous fossils and other exhibits have been stolen from its Goldfuß Museum. The university is now appealing to the public for information on items put up for sale or found…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (333+ words) In her paintings—shown at François Ghebaly and Almeida & Dale—everything is so vivid, yet so elusive. In Joeun Kim Aatchim’s paintings—but she calls them drawings—everything is so vivid, yet so elusive Her line feels definitive, yet…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (308+ words) Jacques Chirac's presidential museum in central France, housing diplomatic gifts, was robbed for the fourth time French museums can’t seem to catch a break Between Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, the Musée du Président Jacques Chirac in the…...