“Beam in” and “beam out” is the company Proto’s choice of language, and the holograms they create are eerily lifelike.
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This week, a rare fossil is discovered, a new book on artist Niki de Saint Phalle is published, the erasure of women philosophers continues, a culinary map of China, and much more.
On Feminist Indexes: An Interview with Cait McKinney and Mindy Seu
The Lambda Literary Award Finalist and Cyberfeminism Index designer discuss the need to “troll these progress stories that we tell about computers.”
A Virtual Ballroom Experience, Hosted by Rashaad Newsome
Categories for the annual Art Ball are inspired by specific art movements and artists, and this year will feature looks in the colorful, joyful style of Barkley L. Hendricks paintings.
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This week, an ancient animal is named after President Biden, sportwashing, blood art in museums, almost the world’s biggest potato, and more.
Rezoning Plan Will Destroy What Made Soho an Artists’ Neighborhood
Will New York wake up one day and discover that speculation has cannibalized its creative industries, which underpinned the desirability of the real estate itself?
RIP Adobe Flash: Five Takeaways About the Plug-in’s Legacy in Net Art
Adobe Flash has the reached the end of its life. Artists and digital archivists share thoughts regarding its demise and what open source tools are accessible to archive old Flash-based works.
Curator John Lukavic Picks Five Artists to Watch From Indian Market
In this ongoing series, curators and members of the Native arts community share five artists they were looking forward to seeing at the 2020 Indian Market, which has been postponed to 2021.
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Earlier this month Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein wrote about the creative class and how eulogies may be premature: While this system produces culture, no one is paid enough, and the rent climbs ever upward. I once worked an art fair with a kindly but grizzled art handler who told me that he’d been making the same rate […]
A Beirut Gallery Owner Speaks About the Devastation of the Explosion
“We are now in survival mode,” says Joumana Asseily, director and founder of Marfa’ Projects. “A week ago I was concerned about safety issues because of the pandemic but now my biggest worry is checking if everyone is safe and has a shelter.”
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This week, the world’s biggest Pokémon card collector, how a photojournalist was killed in Afghanistan, Dan Hancox and Kasia Tomasiewicz, writing for Coda, discuss how children’s toys may be normalizing surveillance, coopting “woke,” and much more.
How Normie Minimalism and Farmhouse Chic Took Over Contemporary Design
An aesthetic of minimalism in architecture and interior design has been sold to consumers of high design for decades now in the pages of Dwell and the endlessly scrollable interfaces of websites like designboom and ArchDaily.