News
Artists and Loft Tenants Protest New York City's Department of Buildings
On Friday afternoon, politicians and loft tenants rallied near City Hall to demand that Mayor de Blasio overhaul the city's Loft Board.
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Art
Google Unveils Incredibly Detailed 3D Models of At-Risk Heritage Sites
"Open Heritage" features digitized, 3D models of over 25 locations from around the world, signaling the start of a major chapter for the field of digital archaeology.
Art
Bringing the Signs and Textures of South Central LA into the Museum
Lauren Halsey's site-specific installation transforms the typically austere space of the museum into a utopian dream made of the people, symbols, and imagery of South Central Los Angeles.
Opinion
Why I Am Resigning from X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly and the Problem with 356 Mission’s Politics
The publication’s board is scheduling an event at an establishment boycotted by a long list of grass-roots organizations in Boyle Heights.
Art
Rediscovering the Studio Photographer Who Captivated Amsterdam's Art Scene in the 1990s
Lee To Sang’s photographs, paradoxically, free his subjects from being defined by the picture, and instead capture subjects who are vastly more expansive than who they appear to be in front of the camera.
Art
Bringing Our Social Media Spaces and Selves into the Gallery
An exhibition at the University of Denver features installations that substitute digital spaces and images for embodied replicas, and vice versa.
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
Recharting America’s Origin Story Through Quilts
Stephen Towns’s exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art honors black women and Nat Turner, meditates on labor, and makes room for nuance in debates on depictions of historical violence.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Gillian Wearing unveiled her statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett, the Smithsonian deployed robot docents at six of its museums, and the United Arab Emirates donated $50 million toward rebuilding Mosul.
Books
A Photographer Captures the Unique Personalities of New York City Pigeons
Andrew Garn's book of photographs invites readers to see pigeons as friendly, feathered neighbors rather than pesky foe.
Film
Political Corruption Haunts an Afrofuturist Film Set in Brasília
The 2016 impeachment of Dilma Rousseff looms over Adirley Quierós’s new movie Once There Was Brasília.
News
2018 Turner Prize Shortlist Spotlights Moving Image Artists
Among this year's nominees are a 30-year-old artist from New Zealand and a London-based collective that analyzes the architecture and urban design of conflict areas.