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A Game Lets You Navigate an Artist’s Flight from Syria
Path Out from Causa Creations is an RPG video game where players follow the escape of a Syrian artist from his home to Europe.
News
Prominent German Artists Object to Arms Manufacturer’s Exhibition Sponsorship
Rheinmetall, a Düsseldorf-based multinational defense company, is one of the sponsors of a sprawling exhibition of German contemporary art that recently opened in Beijing.
Interviews
“A Year of Vomiting Color”: Sean Price Williams on Cinematography
Williams talks about his relationship to cinematography, including his latest work in Thirst Street, the truest visual smorgasbord of all.
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The Print Legacy of Louise Bourgeois Unfolds at MoMA
A new exhibition gathers some 300 works, including 265 prints, to show the increasingly central role printmaking played in Bourgeois’s practice through the decades.
Articles
Remembering Greg Escalante, a Gallerist and Friend to Artists
One reason that Greg Escalante’s battle with depression remained largely hidden was that he drew attention to himself in order to serve others, especially artists.
The Creative Chemistry of a Photography Duo from the 1840s
In 1840s Edinburgh, painter David Octavius Hill and engineer Robert Adamson formed the city’s first photography studio, which created thousands of images until Adamson’s sudden death.
How a Mark Twain Travel Book Turned Palestine into a Desert
The Innocents Abroad, the most famous 19th-century account of Palestine, is in the end an elaborate, sustained joke at the expense of the peoples and places of the Mediterranean.
News
Earliest Known Zero Symbol Identified in Ancient Indian Manuscript
Carbon dating reveals the earliest known symbol for zero is in a 3rd or 4th century Indian manuscript at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries.
Articles
Underdog Artists and Publishers at the NY Art Book Fair
In an effort to promote the underdog, we decided to focus on booths from the artists and publications that will be their state or country’s sole representative.
News
Minecraft Mapping One of Europe’s Last Primeval Forests
To the Last Tree Standing allows you to explore about 270 square miles of Poland’s Białowieża Forest, which has witnessed increased logging over the past year.