Books
The Art of Psychological Testing
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), a psychological test first published in 1943, doubles as an excellent poem.
Carey Dunne
In Brief
Finnish Government Refuses to Fund Guggenheim Helsinki
Political opposition in Finland could sabotage longstanding plans to build a Guggenheim outpost on the Helsinki waterfront.
Art
Tate Uses AI to Match Old British Art to New Photojournalism
Art history repeats itself in contemporary photojournalism.
Books
A Fictive Psychoanalytic Society Set in 1930s Coney Island
At the raucous Insanitarium with Blowhole Theater, part of early 20th-century Coney Island’s Pavilion of Fun, clowns and dwarfs poked patrons with cattle prods, pushing women over jets of hot air so their skirts blew upward as onlookers gawked.
News
Artist-in-Residence Stranded at Sea on Bankrupt Container Ship
An artist residency hosted on a freighter crossing the Pacific Ocean has turned into a bizarre existential art piece in itself.
In Brief
Peeping Toms on Tate Modern Observation Deck Lead Neighbors to Threaten Legal Action
Residents of London's Neo Bankside luxury apartment complex, next to the Tate Modern, have lately been dismayed to find photographs of their living rooms and bedrooms popping up on strangers' Instagram feeds.
Art
Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics.
Opinion
Kara Walker’s Puppets Dance in a New Music Video for Santigold
Even if you're familiar with artist Kara Walker’s signature shadow puppets, you've probably never seen them looking as cheerful as they do in electro-pop artist Santigold’s new music video.
Opinion
Cruising Through Ed Ruscha’s Career in Seven Minutes
Despite his resistance to the characterization, Ed Ruscha has a reputation as a quintessential Los Angeles artist.
Art
A Cookbook Inspired by Brad Pitt's On-Screen Eating Habits
You know when you're watching a Brad Pitt movie and Brad Pitt is eating food in the movie and you're not sure which you want more, Brad Pitt or the food?
In Brief
NYPD Arrests Performance Artist Who Threw Crickets and Worms in Subway Car
A "crazed woman" who threw live crickets and worms all over a crowded subway car in New York claimed the bug-throwing was a performance art stunt gone horribly wrong and was subsequently arrested by the NYPD.
Art
Photographer Imagines the Dreams of Fellow Syrian Refugees
Before he started taking photographs at a refugee camp in Lebanon, 37-year-old Omar Imam was a refugee himself.