History
50 Years Ago Today, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage Played Chess
Spoiler alert: Cage lost … twice.
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Interview
Commemorating US-Mexico Collaboration on a Farm Where Guest Workers Toiled
Artist Adriana Corral will install a flag that depicts the Mexican golden eagle and the American bald eagle, claws connecting.
News
Australian Art Museum Drops Security Firm Accused of Abuse at Detention Centers
The National Gallery of Victoria will no longer work with Wilson Security, though it claims recent protests and petitions did not drive the decision.
Art
Photographs Trace US Government Abuses, from Manzanar to Guantánamo
Concurrent shows at the International Center of Photography feature historical images of Japanese-American detention camps in the 1940s and Edmund Clark’s recent projects tracking the "War on Terror" and covert anti-terrorism programs .
Comics
American Artists Have No Shame
While their neighbors to the north are humble to a fault, artists in the US are convinced of their own genius.
Art
Required Reading
This week, viral photo of the SpaceX launch, art and tech's complicity, Thomas Heatherwick's "The Vessel," travel in the age of Instagram, drone fashion models, the Las Vegas painting with a cult following, and more.
Art
Guarding Treasure in Louis Sullivan's Banks
With their winged lions, tapestry brick, interior murals, and stained glass windows, Sullivan’s banks instantly draw the eye.
Books
Douglas Crase, Literary Subversive
The entire body of Crase’s writing invites the kind of close attention that is usually reserved for poetry.
Art
Peter Williams's Everyday American Hell
Williams has a deeply personal awareness of the irreparable harm done to black bodies.
Art
Where Angels Fear to Tread
The marble floors are turning red.
Art
Melvin Way Holds the Keys to the Universe
Melvin Way’s finely crafted, befuddling works demand to be understood on their own terms. But just what are they?
Art
Making Art from Global Trade Routes
Hugh Scott-Douglas takes viewers on a journey through the oceanic trade and zeroes in on the interference of bodies and labor in global transactions.