Art
An Unlikely Marriage of Science and Art
In the hate-convulsed worldscape of today, Heather Dewey-Hagborg proposes oxytocin as that long looked-for potion: The Love Drug.
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Art
A Curator's Perspective on Davide Sorrenti's Fashion Photography
The photographer captured the currents of hip hop, skater, grunge, and rave culture that flourished in downtown Manhattan in the 1990s.
Art
Dora Maar, More than a Surrealist Muse
The Centre Pompidou's Dora Maar honors Picasso’s famous muse for the pivotal part she clearly, and often daringly, played in the establishment of the European avant-garde.
Art
The Defiant Undercurrents of Feminine Art
While many of Julia Kuhl's paintings are funny and provocative others are more troubling, alluding to the ways women’s personal, professional, and sexual boundaries often go broadly unacknowledged.
Art
Our Love for Fetishes
Sculptor Margaret Wharton and painter Issy Wood are both open to the irrational currents flowing through our lives.
Art
In Praise of Painting's Ambiguity
The literalism of 1960s Formalism has been replaced by an insistence on the factual, which leaves little room for the imagination or for speculation.
In Brief
Man Finds Authentic Egon Schiele Drawing in New York City Thrift Store
The shopper, a part-time art handler, found a 1918 Schiele pencil drawing in a Habitat for Humanity thrift store in Queens. The finding is valued at more than $100,000.
Film
Radical Migration Stories on the Road
NO EVIL EYE brings experimental film and politics to the forefront with a touring program currently screening in Brooklyn.
News
A Historical Marker Commemorating Emmett Till's Death Is Riddled with Bullets, Again [UPDATED]
This is the third historical marker to be damaged by bullets since it was erected in 2007. Now, three University of Mississippi students are facing a possible civil rights investigation after posing with guns next to the bullet-punctured sign.
Art
Mapping Boundaries and Free Space in Brazil
A series of maps elucidates both literal and metaphorical walls that limit equality and freedom in Brazilian society and Latin America at large.
Comics
What’s Luck Got to Do With Being Good at Art?
You're so lucky you can draw.
Art
Illustrating Spain in Transition Through Underground Comix
Ceesepe's retrospective at La Casa Encendida explores how the artist’s underground comics offer an alternative view of Spanish life under and after the dictatorship led by Francisco Franco.