Over 20 nude drawings of Iggy Pop will be exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum later this year. The musician served as a life model at the New York Academy of Art last month as part of a new project by Jeremy Deller.
On this week’s art crime blotter: a dog sculpture goes missing in Albuquerque, meth smugglers hide drugs in art supplies, and an artist sues Wu-Tang Clan and Martin Shkreli.
Inspired by the Harper’s Index, Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.
LOS ANGELES — This week, there’s a full day of performances from an avant-garde music legend, an outdoor art party in downtown LA, a Mexican artist’s first installation in the city, and much more.
This week, an experimental sound artist creates work live, a South African photographer opens her largest museum show to date, there’s a day to celebrate independent bookstores — and don’t forget the opening of the new Whitney Museum!
Inspired by the Harper’s Index, Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.
LOS ANGELES — This week, there’s a launch party for a new art magazine, a Sister Corita-style happening, a punk provocateur’s exhibit, and more.
This week, get in touch with your feminist side with a discussion of women in print and a lecture on Georgia O’Keeffe. Or go for enlightenment, by way of a sacred space at the Queens Museum or an overnight philosophy marathon. Whatever you do, don’t miss a chance for new discoveries at the Brooklyn Zine Fest.
This week in art news: Protesting art students prohibited from “unlawful trespass” in London, resale royalties act reintroduced in US Congress, and Brooklyn Museum gala guests make off with artworks mistaken for party favors.
Inspired by the Harper’s Index, Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.