News
Art Dealer and Collector Killed in Blaze at Trump Tower
Todd Brassner, who had been a close friend of Andy Warhol, had his portrait painted by the Pop artist in 1975.
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Announcement
A Birthday Extravaganza for the Art Students League, May 11 and 12
The Art Students League celebrates the 125th Anniversary of its landmark building on 57th Street with “[STartUP],” a series of exhibitions, auctions, open studios, and parties May 11-12.
Comics
Too Cool 4 School
At my elementary school there was an annual competition to design the yearbook cover.
News
A Playable Archive of 74 Retro Games, Including Frogger, Tamagotchi, and Donkey Kong
The Internet Archive has uploaded emulations of classic games to Handheld History, a free digital library, allowing for old-school experiences on modern computers.
Art
A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the US
An exhibition by artist Rachel Breen and poet Alison Morse highlights the deadly working conditions of garment workers, asking viewers to critically examine their consumption of clothing.
Art
Required Reading
This week, reviewing Civilizations, conserving Edgar Degas's tutus, tech's "disruption" of photography, Facebook's long history of apologies, architects and designers championing afrofutrism, and more.
Books
The Complex and Passionate Poems of Joseph Ceravolo
Ceravolo worked for most of his life as a civil engineer and brought an outsider sensibility to his poetics.
Books
A Dystopian Fairy Tale Reflects Challenges of the Present
Despite the serious environmental and political challenges presented in The Emissary, Yoko Tawada suggests that another path exists.
Film
Monstrous and Touching Stories Within Stories
Fritz Böhm’s debut film Wildling is cloaked in mystery, dark and dank, occasionally bloody, sometimes shocking, and fantastically folkloric.
Art
When Paintings Are Stitched, Unstitched, Twisted, and Knotted
Julia Bland combines weaving with paint to make works that don’t quite fit comfortably in a single category.
Art
Have We Learned Anything from the Past Century?
“If we were to lose the ruins we would be left with nothing.”
Art
Kay Rosen’s Writing on the Wall
Rosen employs a visual idiom of protest that relies more on wordplay than imagery.