NYTIMES (Alex Vadukul) - Bob Mackie: A Life in Pictures
The designer was known for his flashy, sparkly designs for Cher, Diana Ross, Tina Turner and countless others.
NYTIMES (Sasha Weiss) - Taryn Simon’s Giant Exhibition at the Guggenheim Tells the Story of America
Her new show at the Guggenheim Museum is an audacious attempt to document the story of modern America through the life of one F.B.I. agent.
YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - ‘The power of witnessing’: Chicago exhibition explores Emmett Till’s stolen life
How might have Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, lived his life, if given the chance? It’s the central question explored in “If Emmett Till Lived: A Creative Monument,” an exhibition at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography. When Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley “forced open the casket to show his mutilated, abused, tortured body, she opened our eyes,” says Sarah Lewis, the exhibits curator. “We’re honoring the work that she began.”
WASHINGTONPOST (Harrison Smith) - Jay Maisel, a cigar-chomping giant of photography, has died
He photographed Marilyn Monroe and took the cover photo for Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue.” For 50 years, he lived in a vast graffiti-covered bank building.
ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - WATCH: Phoenix art project honors children who lost loved ones on 9/11
A phoenix created by children who lost loved ones on 9/11 stands as a symbol of healing and hope and is now on display at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.
NYTIMES (Nick Haramis) - The Incredible Art of Being Jeff Koons
For five decades, the artist has made sculptures that are larger-than-life — and also singularly reflective of his own.
ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Kids who lost loved ones on 9/11 channel grief into art at America's Camp
Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
NYTIMES (Jason Farago) - Unstitching the 1,000-Year-Old Story of the Bayeux Tapestry
The medieval masterpiece has traveled from France to England for a once-in-a-lifetime show. It is not what our critic Jason Farago expected.
WASHINGTONPOST (Jeffrey Loria) - The little-known story of a sculpture that bore witness on 9/11
The sculpture, “Modern Head,” is now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection.
ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - WATCH: 9/11 survivor’s tribute to fallen colleagues
Artist Katie Ré Scheidt debuts ’67 portraits,’ a collection of paintings of her fallen colleagues.