In Brief
A Snowstorm Paralyzed Paris, But Its Museums Look Lovely
This week the French capital received far more than its usual share of snow, leaving many of its museums, gardens, and outdoor sculptures with a photogenic dusting of fresh powder.
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One of the Earliest Illustrated Medical Books Offers a Lens Into Medieval Health
Originally published in 1491, Fasciculus medicinae quickly proved popular, and dozens of editions followed until 1522.
Art
Jazz, Mardis Gras, and Musical History at the New Orleans Triennial
An exhibition at Prospect 4 is showcasing magnificent Mardi Gras costumes, collaged tape cases made by Louis Armstrong, and more.
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Artforum Posts Statement After Boycott Letter, and Amanda Schmitt's Attorneys Respond [UPDATED]
Artforum released a statement distancing itself from former publisher Knight Landesman. Attorneys for former employee Amanda Schmitt responded.
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Art Worker Salary Survey Aims to Understand the Gender Pay Gap
"This survey is not just for women. And not just for employees."
Art
The Political Truths That Ground Our Athletic Heroes
These men and women are our dreams, manifesting a grace that the rest of us lack — a grace we expect to stay aloft, in the air.
Books
Max Ernst’s Collage Novels Are Part Séance, Part Victorian Underworld, and All Uncanny
Ernst’s trailblazing “collage novels" employ the dreamlike conjunction — the fusion or juxtaposition of unlike elements whose collision makes perfect sense, in a free-associated way.
Art
The Climate Museum Captures the Gravity of a Global Crisis
The world's first climate change museum opens its inaugural exhibition, exploring polar ice through art at the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan.
Art
Searching for the Roots of Empathy in Rituals of Care
In Kerry Tribe's video we see both actors playing patients and medical students acting as though they were doctors, but the aim is for something real: empathy.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: We Are Not Surprised (WANS) called for a boycott of Artforum, San Francisco launched a census to determine the impact of rising rents on artists and arts professionals, and the UK's Royal Collection announced a series of nationwide exhibitions dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci's
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157 New Emoji, From Lettuce to Llamas, Will Soon Diversify the Visual Lexicon
Your emoji keyboard is about to get even more crowded.
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ArtYard Presents Kahn & Selesnick’s Truppe Fledermaus & the Carnival at the End of the World
Curated by Mike Carroll of the Schoolhouse Gallery, Massachusetts, this exhibition offers a series of immersive and intricate chronicles of a drowning world.