Art
Watching a 3D Printer Reinterpret African Tribal Symbols
Matthew Angelo Harrison has designed and built a machine that takes his ongoing work with abstraction in a different direction.
Sarah Rose Sharp
News
An Artist Is Helping Incubate More Resilient and Fertile Chickens for Ethiopia
Koen Vanmechelen has spent the last 20 years developing a “Cosmopolitan Chicken,” and since 2016 has been involved in a project to breed more versatile poultry at a facility in Addis Ababa.
News
Artists Sue City of Memphis for Painting Over Sanctioned Murals
Twelve artists who created murals at the behest of nonprofit Paint Memphis, Inc. are suing the city for buffing five of the murals and threatening to erase three more.
News
Rampant Social Inequalities Persist in the Arts According to New UK Study
The study reveals that the black and minority ethnic people comprise only 2.7% of the museum, gallery, and library workforce in the UK.
Interview
Artist's Phallus Murals Challenge Viewers "to Think Deeper, Longer, Wider, Harder"
Two of Carolina Falkholt's murals of giant phalluses have been painted over recently, but she sees them as catalysts for important and difficult conversations.
Art
Uncanny Renderings of Art History’s Famous Self-Portraits
Allan Rubin transforms his artistic heroes into three-dimensional sculptures made from upcycled tin cans.
Film
An Artist Excavates the Neglected Histories of a Gentrifying Neighborhood in Detroit
Nicole MacDonald’s Last Days of Chinatown hones in on the displacement of the poor and “unimportant” people to accommodate the march of progress in Detroit.
Art
An Artist Finds the Roots of Language in Natural Forms
Over the past 40 years Michele Oka Doner has been developing her own "personal hieroglyphics" shaped out of clay to illustrate how language comes from nature.
Art
The Rich Chicano Tradition of Black Velvet Paintings
An exhibition in Detroit's Mexicantown takes an in-depth look at the black velvet painting tradition in Chicano communities, from renderings of a Nahuatl legend to portraits of Elvis and Zapata.
Test 2018 posts
Artist's Billboard Declaring “There Are Black People in the Future” Taken Down by Landlord
The billboard in Pittsburgh was initially removed due to "objections to the content," but a recent wave of support suggests the sign could go back up.
News
Forgotten Old Master Painting Rediscovered in Iowa Storeroom
An unusual detail helped scholars attribute the painting to Otto van Veen: "The rosy cheeks on the model ... And not the cheeks on the face.”
News
Long-Lost 1924 Film That Anticipated the Holocaust Is Rediscovered and Restored
The City Without Jews was once considered lost forever. But in 2015, at a flea market in Paris, a collector unexpectedly discovered a complete copy of the film.