Books

Mapping Chicago’s Concrete and Brutalist Buildings

For a new map published by Blue Crow Media, Chicago-based architect Iker Gil has selected over 50 examples of concrete and Brutalist buildings across the city and its suburbs to highlight.

News

Ethiopia Calls on London Museum to Repatriate Objects Looted 150 Years Ago [UPDATED]

The call, by Ethiopia's ambassador for the UK, followed a suggestion earlier this month by the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum that the objects could be given on long-term loan.

Art

Uncanny Renderings of Art History’s Famous Self-Portraits

Allan Rubin transforms his artistic heroes into three-dimensional sculptures made from upcycled tin cans.

Announcement

Visit DUMBO Open Studios 2018, April 28 and 29

Studio highlights include: Ben Thorp Brown, Sharon Butler, Marsha Cottrell, Jerry Kearns, Mary Mattingly, Jeanine Oleson, and many more.

Art

Over Two Millennia of Music Play Out Across the Metropolitan Museum's New Instrument Galleries

The newly reopened galleries combine disparate instruments the world over, grouping them by time period and type, rather than dividing them into the cultures by which they were created.

Comics

I’m Not into Celebrity Worship, Except When It Comes to Nick Cave

I'll gladly show up in my Sunday's best.

Announcement

Discussing Jasper Johns at the Brooklyn Public Library with John Yau, Martha Wilson, William Villalongo, and Caitlin Sweeney

The event will be held on April 26, 7:30-9pm, at Central Library's Dweck Center.

News

A Braille-Based Typeface Readable by Both Touch and Sight

A new typeface updates the nearly 200 century-old system by superimposing raised dots onto carefully configured letterforms, allowing it to be understood by both sight and touch.

Art

An Urban Oasis Hides Ancient Mysteries in Bustling Downtown Miami

Ishmael Bermudez has spent half a century excavating the "Well of Ancient Mysteries," a tranquil and historic site, in the backyard of his childhood home.

Art

How Adrian Piper Challenges Us to Change the Ways We Live

In her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Piper makes visible the ways in which we are held in place by other people and their perceptions, and how their perceptions lead to the politics and philosophies that make up our world.

Art

Required Reading

This week, Yayoi Kusama goes floral, the battle over US identity, considering David Goldblatt in Paris, Humanities problems, reviewing the Pioneers of African-American Cinema, and more.

Music

Wendy's Serves Up a Beefy Mixtape

The fast food chain's mixtape We Beefin? explores an uncharted outreach strategy.