Comics
LA Buildings that Are Shaped Like Other Things
Here are a few of my favorite buildings from LA's golden age of programmatic architecture in the 1920s.
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Art
God Loves Versace in Met Museum’s Fashion and Catholicism Exhibit
The museum yokes the spectacle of fashion and the spectacle of Catholicism in its largest costume exhibition to date.
Art
Art by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso Laid Bare for New Exhibition at Met Breuer
On display at the Met Breuer are the nude drawings, watercolors, and prints by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso. This will be the first time these pieces have been on display together.
Announcement
SITE Santa Fe Presents SITElines.2018, New Perspectives on Art of the Americas
SITELines.2018: Casa tomada, is the third installment in SITE Santa Fe’s reimagined biennial series with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas.
Art
Updating Ruskin’s Sublime Landscape in the Age of the Anthropocene
New York University's Grey Gallery takes on the concept of the sublime in contemporary landscape art.
Art
Ominous and Uplifting Paintings that Dance with Death
Emilia Olsen uses the Death and the Maiden allegory as a provocative metaphor for artistic sustenance and renewal.
Art
Fiberglass Beasts of the Wisconsin Wild
A tour of FAST Corporation of Wisconsin reveals the fascinating processes by which contemporary fiberglass public artworks come into being.
Performance
Nick Cave Lets Go in a Performance that Is Part Confession, Part Celebration
In “The Let Go” at the Park Avenue Armory, the artist explores jubilation washed with spectacle and an undertow of anguish.
Art
Immigrant Stories Dock at Governors Island in Two Exhibitions
Artists in both exhibitions were inspired by the harbor itself and how it has been a witness to immigrant narratives.
Comics
The Original Skyscrapers
Life in the big city can be draining.
Art
How Medieval Artists Used Monsters as Propaganda
In Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York is exhibiting 70 examples of the monstrous in the Middle Ages.
Art
Required Reading
This week, did Donald Glover swipe parts of his number one tune, Godwin's Law has been suspended, the Black Holocaust Museum has reopened, vintage Chicago restaurant postcards, bees that use flower petals to make nests, and more.