News
New Zealand Wants to Be the “Best Place to Have Herpes”
A new award-winning ad campaign uses filmstock aesthetics, retro travel imagery, and irreverent humor to change perceptions of the common virus.
Sarah Rose Sharp
News
Ancient Egyptian Coffin Paintings Suggest Awareness of Milky Way
Representations of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut on 3,000-year-old coffins shows evidence of the galaxy being accurately represented.
News
Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway
The internet is up in arms about the art-inspired Vogue shoot, with many lambasting Leibovitz's choice of color and lighting, or lack thereof.
News
Archaeologists Reconstruct Ancient Roman “Jigsaw Puzzle”
The thousands of fragments once formed an enormous fresco that decorated around 20 walls in a building in central London.
Features
Moki Cherry, the Swedish Designer Who Blurred Art and Life
The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia will soon show a trove of the artist’s textile works, costumes, performance documentation, and more.
Opinion
Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art
Not content to help disintegrate democracy here at home, the cheugy shit-poster is seeking to create a new low cultural watermark in a city known for its rising tides.
Book Review
A Photographer’s Unflinching Hymn to Her Aging Body
Rosalind Fox Solomon forged her way as an artist at 53. With remarkable self-knowledge, A Woman I Once Knew lays out her nonagenarian life story.
Opinion
Jeff Koons and Squarespace Partner on New Web Template No One Asked For
The collaboration is a terrific opportunity for Koons to finally get some exposure.
Art
Detroit Museum Celebrates 100 Years of James Baldwin
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History features the work of Baldwin-obsessed artist Sabrina Nelson on the centennial of the famed author’s birth.
Art
Plushies Inspired by Medieval Cats Take the Internet by Storm
Laura Venditti’s delightful needle-felted creations are inspired by the oddly proportioned creatures that haunt illuminated manuscripts and paintings.
Art
Half a Century of Black Art in Detroit
An exhibition revisits the ongoing legacy of Gallery 7, a space dedicated to Black artists experimenting with abstraction and minimalism in the 1970s.
Art
Feel-Good Memes Abound After Tim Walz Named VP Pick
Because in addition to leveraging a progressive voter base in his state and supporting reproductive freedom, the Minnesota governor knows how to behave around a couch.