Art
Occupy White Walls Game Lets You Simulate Developing Your Own Blue-Chip Gallery
A van Gogh might be impossible for most of us to own in real life, but this computer game makes it a simple transaction
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Announcement
Voices in Contemporary Art Announces Spring 2019 Issue of VoCA Journal
The third in a series on the stewardship of media arts, this is the first VoCA journal to focus specifically on women practitioners in the field.
Art
Bodies Lose Themselves Within Other Bodies in Erotic Watercolors
Nadine Faraj's technique, which is to work wet-in-wet with watercolors on paper, evokes the misty arcs of pleasure and the deep, deep depths of hunger that the sexual act taps.
News
A 1958 Green Book Sets Auction Record, and Cincinnati Art Museum Acquires Nancy Rexroth Collection
Plus, Banksy and Kusama sell at auction, and the V&A acquires Grayson Perry’s Matching Pair vases.
Announcement
The Luminary Launches Counterpublic, a New Triennial Exhibition
The triennial exhibition is scaled to a neighborhood in St. Louis and will include thirty-plus site-responsive commissions. On view from April 13 to July 13.
In Brief
Mercedes-Benz Is Suing Artists Who Accused the Car Company of Copyright Infringement
"An advertisement for a Mercedes Benz car that costs $200,000, without any compensation to me, or without even asking my permission first, is totally unacceptable," one of the artists said.
Art
Daguerreotypes by a French Traveler Who Was Among the First to Photograph the Eastern Mediterranean
Monumental Journey displays Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey's daguerreotypes which include the earliest surviving photographs of many notable cities and monuments in the Eastern Mediterranean.
News
Art Movements
Artist Agnès Varda passed away, Gareth Nyandoro is now represented by Van Doren Waxter, and more.
News
Memorial to Enslaved People Vandalized with Racist Language and Urine at the University of North Carolina
The sculpture, created by Do Ho Suh in 2005, stands close to the former site of "Silent Sam," a Confederate monument toppled by student activists this summer.
In Brief
A Tiny Danish Town Will Get Western Europe's Biggest Skyscraper
The planned project will rise 1,049 feet tall in a rural town of just 7,000 people.
Comics
Going to an Art Show Where All the Visitors Are Naked
To be honest, it’s hard to pay attention to the art with daylight shining on my ass.
Art
Thinking About Information Technology as an Evolution in Language
With roots in activism, accessibility, and design, Spectacular Grammar considers technology's progressive potential for empowerment.