Art
Unearthing Centuries of Interdependence Between Humans and Plants
Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World explores how humans have historically understood the plant world, and how we ought to reconsider it as we degrade the planet.
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Whale Paintings Evoke the Giant Mammals' Suffering and Scarring
Juliette Dumas's large-scale paintings of whales' flukes manage to refresh a subject that has borne more than its share of sentimentality.
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New Public Sculpture Will Honor Court Case That Expanded Rights for Asian Americans
A public sculpture in New Mexico will commemorate a little-known court ruling that gave Asian Americans the right to testify before a judge.
Art
The Remarkable and Polyglot Design Legacy of Ilonka Karasz
Ilonka Karasz’s designs span from the 1910s to the 1970s, across multiple media: textiles, industrial design, and illustration, including several New Yorker covers, all with a keen sense of the prevailing zeitgeist, and yet, I had never heard of her.
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Apply for the Museum of Arts and Design’s $50,000 Burke Prize
The Burke Prize recipient will receive an unrestricted $50,000 award and an exhibition alongside a select group of prize finalists.
Film
A Film Tries to Make a Pioneering Feminist Intellectual More Than Just a Muse
Lou Andreas-Salomé — a novelist, essayist, and psychoanalyst who won the hearts of Freud, Nietzsche, and Rilke — led an almost infinitely varied life.
Art
The Portrait That Forged a “Divine Marriage” Between Two 19th-Century Women Painters
In 1898, Anna Klumpke painted a portrait of the French artist Rosa Bonheur. The partnership that followed shaped both their artistic legacies.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Soul of a Nation in Arkansas, "female monsters" in art, new "golden age" of black painting, trends at Milan Design Week, Zaha Hadid's only built house is complete, and more.
Art
Provocative Art about Blood and Masks
Daniel Pešta's paintings refute the conventions of classical beauty but their nightmarish imagery can be exquisite.
Art
A Trailblazer of Computer Drawing Gets Her Due
An exhibition offers a glimpse of Vera Molnar’s career, from post-Constructivist abstraction to her use of a computer to make drawings.
Art
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s Guide to the Americas
In Vásquez de la Horra’s cosmology, we encounter fantastical creatures on whatever journey we take, whether it is to a real place or an imagined future.
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Stormy and Trumptaeon
The grotesque transgressor, having seen the Goddess naked, was delivered by Zeus to Stormy Artemis, who would decide his fate.