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Los Angeles Gallery Takes Down One of Two Exhibitions After Anti-Gentrification Protest [UPDATED]
After artists featured in a Chimento Contemporary exhibition engaged with protesters outside, their show was pressured to shut down.
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The View from the NY Art Book Fair Zine Tent: 8 Zines You Want to Know About
This year’s zinesters brought some of the most playful, provocative, and interesting items on display, and here are some notable picks.
Art
Imagining a Photo Archive of the American West When Mexico Ruled the Land
Because images of the West were created after 1848, we have few visual references to the region during its Mexican era. One artist wants to correct that art historical schism.
Interviews
Black Feminist Literature at the NY Art Book Fair: An Interview with the Free Black Women’s Library
Artist and librarian OlaRonke Akinmowo has collected over 1,000 books written by Black women to assemble the interactive biblio installation.
A Beer Festival Inspires Visitors to Craft Inventive Pretzel Necklaces as Snacks
Who has the time to sit down and eat? Visitors to the Great American Beer Festival bake their own pretzels and make stylish food pendants.
News
17 Years Later, 9/11 Memorial at Pennsylvania Crash Site Is Completed
From its earliest stages, the memorial site has been plagued with islamophobic conspiracy theories about its design. “The Tower of Voices” is no different.
Art
How the Fusion of Photography, Collage, and Printing Present a Portrait of Wallace Berman
A small exhibition of Wallace Berman’s Verifax collages and photographs from the mid- to late-1960s operates like music in establishing a theme and exploring it through several variations.
In Brief
New Research Finds that Caravaggio Died of Sepsis, Not Syphilis
Before established a certain cause of death for the Baroque painter, scientists first had to find his body.
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Vera List Center’s 2018 Forum Asks “If Art Is Politics”
The center’s inaugural forum will take place October 4-5 at the New School Tishman Auditorium.
Designer Releases 3D-Printed Stamp to Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill
With the Trump administration balking on plans to put the abolitionist on the $20 bill, Dano Wall took matters into his own hands.
Articles
Fax Messages to US Politicians with Striking Political Art
The Los Angeles-based design studio Use All Five has expanded its Artifax project, which uses original artwork as letterheads for messages to local representatives.
Art
Perversely Romantic Encounters with Death’s Inevitability
An obviously keen eye and dry sense of humor is behind this throng of carved skulls decorated with precious stones, skeletons, amulets, rosaries, and engravings from Europe and Asia.