Art
Efficient Roadway or Gridlocked Nightmare? The Choice is Yours in this Highway Engineering Game
Freeways by Justin Smith is an urban planning simulator where players construct complex highway systems while avoiding traffic jams.
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Art
Pushing the Limits of What a Video Game Can Be at IndieCade
The independent game festival offers everything from VR to modified old-school SNES setups to an "interactive zine."
Art
Performance Icon Kembra Pfahler Promises a "Harrowing Evening" at the Kitchen
In an evening covering her practice since the 1980s, Kembra Pfahler and her collaborators bring transgressive, wildly inventive, take-no-prisoners performance to the Kitchen.
Art
Curators Illuminate a Show on Black Radical Women Artists
Opening this Wednesday at the California African American Museum, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 focuses on pioneering black female artists.
Interview
A Cinematographer’s Documentary About Making Documentaries
In Cameraperson, documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson turns the lens back on her own experiences working on films.
Art
Using Holograms to Bring the Syrian Conflict Into Daily Life
Artist Asad J. Malik's project uses augmented reality to bring the Syrian conflict into everyday living spaces.
Comics
Aspiring to Be a Hermit
I finally realized my dream isn't fame or money but this.
Announcement
Artist Molly Dressel Discusses Her Experience with MassArt's MFA Program
"The MassArt wood and metal shops have an open-air layout, vast library of tools and machinery, presenting students with the means to dream big."
Art
How Some of the World's Biggest Art Patrons Contributed to the Opioid Crisis
The Sackler family funds spaces in several major museums, including the Guggenheim, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The pharmaceutical titans also contributed to the US's crushing opioid epidemic.
Books
Dreamy Photographs Taken with a Toy Camera Retrace a Rural Midwestern Childhood
Long out of print, Nancy Rexroth's IOWA, a haunting monograph of black-and-white photographs evoking her childhood in the Midwest, is reissued.
Art
Calling Detroit's 1967 Civil Unrest a "Rebellion," a Museum Takes a Strong Stand
In an exhibition commemorating the uprising, the Charles H. Wright Museum takes a political stance in how it describes that history.
Art
Required Reading
This week, people who match art, landscape architects and mass shootings, Henry David Thoreau's two-million-word journal, tabloid art history, and more.