Art
Sanford Biggers Summons the Power of Deep Music
Biggers's current exhibition at Marianne Boesky gallery, Selah, taps into something deeply powerful and ancestral.
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Art
A Hidden Flaneur Who Records the Minutiae of Street Life
Mikiko Hara made a conscious decision to discard reliance on the viewfinder, which led to a body of work that is true to her intention to capture street life as a continuous process.
Art
At Storm King, a Half-Buried Roof Shelters Oral Histories
Heather Hart's "The Oracle of Lacuna" creates spaces for communal exploration of little-known regional oral histories.
Art
Go Behind the Scenes of 9 Museums With These Great Online Web Series
These nine museums are using online video series to take viewers behind the scenes of their collections.
Art
Larry Rivers’s Unrelenting Passion for the Figure
(RE)APPROPRIATIONS at Tibor de Nagy exhibits Rivers's passion for and innate ability to paint figures convincingly, rendering them with sensitivity and expressiveness.
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Trump Continues to Lie About His Fake Renoir
One of the lies President Trump likes to tell is that his Renoir is real, but it turns out that might not be the case.
Art
A Sea of Suspended Boats Evokes the Migrant’s Perilous Journey
Hew Locke’s installation at the Pérez Art Museum Miami features dozens of small boats suspended from the ceiling, forming many horizons that nearly blend into one.
Books
25 Years of Photographing the Human Skull
Lynn Stern's 25 years of skull photographs are compiled in a new book, which considers the art historical context of this vision of death.
Comics
Tips for a TRULY Scary Halloween Party
Spider webs and peeled grapes are scary, but you know what would make a really scary party?
Books
"Ornament Is Crime:" A Visual Manifesto for the Modernist Home
Ornament is Crime is a visual compendium of the Modernist home, from early 1900s designs to contemporary structures carrying the austere style into the 21st century.
Art
Trevor Paglen Peers Into the World of Computer Vision
A Study of Invisible Images, which is showing at New York’s Metro Pictures, illuminates the ways that machines interpret and see images.
History
The Seductive Currents of Electricity Pylons
In 1,000 historic photographs of electricity pylons shared by the Science Museum in London, a complex symbol of human progress rises above the landscape.