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A Trio of Political Photographs Rendered in Lint

History is never objective and our relationship to the narrative is often deeply personal.

Art

As the New Museum of the Bible Opens, Questions About its Scholarship Remain

The Museum of the Bible has the potential to reach a much greater audience than any individual scholar and there is real concern that it will selectively use scholarship to promote an evangelical Protestant view of the Bible and religion.

Art

The Surprising Eloquence of Mass-Produced Materials

Jessica Vaughn's show of restrained conceptual works subtly evokes the experiential dimension of mass-produced objects.

Art

The Shazam for Typefaces Will Tell You If That's Helvetica or Futura

The mobile app WhatTheFont, recently revamped with machine learning, claims to correctly identify typefaces encountered IRL 90% of the time.

Art

Measuring the Worth of Renaissance Art in Cows

Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the cost of a cow to consider the worth of 16th-century objects.

Comics

My Secret Life as an Artist and Spy

The world is full of secrets and I'm trying to decode them one by one.

Art

Required Reading

This week, Tom of Finland jewelry, TJ Clark on the art of the Russian Revolution, artist Rosemarie Koczy may have been lying about a past in Nazi concentration camps, a war of words over Boyle Heights, a manicure with pimples, and more.

Art

Toward an Invisible Architecture

A pioneer of electronic sculptural art, Juan Downey made a splash in 1960s and '70s New York when he rigorously critiqued Eurocentric views of Latin American identity.