Art
“Her Music, It Had a Message”: Visitors Remember Aretha Franklin at DC Museum
Through Wednesday, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC is displaying a lithographic poster of Franklin by famed graphic designer Milton Glaser.
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The World's First Movie Poster Goes to Auction
The rare 1896 graphic work advertised the world's first public screening of a film by the Lumière brothers.
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Queering the Body Using Encasements of Color and Light
Photographer Matthew Morrocco dons a morphsuit, and pays homage to Ellsworth Kelly, in one segment of an ongoing series about the body.
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A Mexican Artist and Muse Reclaims Her Legacy
A high-profile retrospective of work by Nahui Olin at Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Arte sheds light on the largely forgotten artist and her nonconformist life.
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How Meditation Has Inspired an Artist's Vision
When artist Aaron Fowler discovered he might have been a father, he created a powerful series of works about how it's "okay to not be a perfect person."
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Required Reading
This week, the world's most beautiful libraries, what art can do that journalism can't, the future of surveillance, leaving Instagram, and more.
Music
On the Margins of Country Music
We’re witnessing a transitional moment for the country music genre that opens up space for weirdness and experimentation.
Art
Paintings of Bodily Residue and Extra-Long Tongues
In Emily Furr’s paintings, objects penetrate the openings of other objects, but the body is nowhere to be seen.
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The Power of Painterly Innocence
Billy White’s artistic kinships seem to be more personal and experiential than cultural or racial.
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Channeling Our Collective Fury
There is an old adage that nothing brings people closer together than discovering that they hate the same person.
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"We Live in a Nuthouse!": Zero Mostel on Art, Politics and America
Mostel perceives that drip paintings can express the scrambled feeling in your mind when you hear the federal government say that you can survive a nuclear war.
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Refuse Transformed: Reuse as Social Repair
These assemblages showcase art’s power and, poignantly its limitations, to effect material transformations.