Art
Generate Medieval City Maps with This Online Tool
The Medieval Fantasy City Generator is an online application that endlessly generates random medieval city maps.
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In Brief
Rock Engravings of Dogs on Leashes Show Pre-Neolithic Good Boys
8,000-year-old stylized engravings show domesticated dogs accompanying humans on the hunt.
In Brief
Alternative Havana Biennial Organizers Detained After Filing a Complaint About Previous Detainment
Curator Yanelys Nuñez Leyva and her partner, the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, were detained by Cuban police after filing a complaint related to Alcántara detention earlier this month.
Art
A Dreamy Carnival at the Children’s Museum in Harlem
Derek Fordjour’s impish and touching installation is so chock-a-block with the minute details of Fordjour’s making that I feel I’m inhabiting his dreamscape
Art
Hear Njideka Akunyili Crosby's Thoughts on Making Art
Akunyili Crosby will be giving a lecture at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts, free and open to the public.
Art
Pleasant Surprises in the Swamp at Prospect, the New Orleans Triennial
Newly restructured as a triennial, Prospect 4 opened in New Orleans last weekend; despite technical challenges and an overly broad theme, it yielded some satisfying moments.
History
Vintage Postcards Will Send You on a Whimsical Roadtrip Across the US
Chicago's Newberry Library has acquired and digitized the nation's largest trove of postcards and related materials.
Books
A Portrait of an 18th-Century Hermit as Both Man and Myth
Amani Willett's The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer uses photography, archival material, and found objects to retrace the story of an 18th-century hermit.
News
Dorothea Rockburne Murals in Limbo as the Former AT&T Building Awaits Its Fate
While debate swirls over a redesign of Philip Johnson's postmodern skyscraper, it's unclear what will happen to Rockburne's two site-specific paintings in the building's lobby.
Books
Street-Level Photographs Capture the Citizens and Signage of Postwar NYC
The new book I See a City chronicles the 1940s and '50s street photography of Todd Webb, who documented postwar New York City.
Art
A Sculptor’s Prescient Portrait of Zimbabwean Youth
For Terrence Musekiwa, Zimbabwe's tumultuous state of affairs provided the impetus for his figures, which are collectively named “the youth of today.”
Interview
6 Questions for an Art Historian About Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi"
David Nolta doesn't mince words in his assessment of "Salvator Mundi." "The sale does not necessarily have any more to do with scholarship than the picture has to do with Leonardo," he explains.