When a furious vandal chops off the head of a Virgin Mary sculpture in an Austrian cathedral, one has to wonder why. Rhea Nayyar explains what was so controversial about the artwork.
Also today: Michael Glover on Michaël Borremans in London, Eileen G’Sell on two documentaries about the Second Artsakh War, Anna Souter on land art at the Venice Biennale, and Sharon Polli, executive director of Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center, explains what a small bohemian town must do to avoid becoming a soulless vacation spot.
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The work was part of an exhibition exploring women's roles in faith and tradition. | Rhea Nayyar
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Michaël Borremans’s paintings seem to display a pitiless, if not forbidding, irony, almost studiedly cruel in their level of dispassion. | Michael Glover
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Artists at the Irish, Hãhãwpuá, Portuguese, and Dutch pavilions are exploring notions of land and rematriation — often by bringing soil itself into the gallery space. | Anna Souter
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Two films make US viewers reckon with the extent to which American ignorance — and indifference — to the conflict is a side effect of “winning” the Cold War. | Eileen G’Sell
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Historic arts enclaves like Provincetown, Key West, and Taos, and American culture at large, lose when they fail to invest in artists and writers. | Sharon Polli
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