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How Art Has Framed Our Celebrity Worship
Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art explores the imagery of celebrity culture and likens it to a religious experience.
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The Elegant Minimalism of Soviet-Era Swimming Pools
Photographer Maria Svarbova focuses on the Communist-era swimming pools of her native Slovakia.
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Opponents of Berkshire Museum Sales Protest Sotheby's
After a judge halted the sale of works from the museum’s collection, nearly a dozen protesters gathered in front of Sotheby’s to demand the return of the deaccessioned pieces.
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Newly Unearthed Miniature Carving Changes Our Understanding of Bronze Age Art
A newly discovered warrior tomb suggests Bronze Age Aegean culture was more interested in naturalism and the human form than previously believed.
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Declassified Drawings from the British Government's UFO Desk
UFO Drawings From The National Archives by David Clarke publishes eyewitness illustrations of unidentified flying objects.
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The Aspirational Living and Jet-Setting of Midcentury Vinyl LPs
Designed for Hi-Fi Living delves beyond the kitsch of midcentury album art to explore the aspirational lifestyles, and travel destinations, in its visuals.
Interview
For Gerald Williams, a Co-Founder of AfriCOBRA, Transnational Black Aesthetics Are as Relevant as Ever
Gerald Williams has lived in seven countries and five different states within the US, but his artistic roots are here on Chicago’s south side, the birthplace of AfriCOBRA, of which he was a member.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a $100,000 toilet, Kushners unwelcome at the Met, a walker's guide of NYC, self-publishing photo books, Jean Nouvel's embarrassing statement, and more.
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The Past and Future of China's Socialist Literature
The story Nicolai Volland tells will surprise those who believe communist China was closed to the world, and anyone who thinks communist literature is dull or irrelevant.
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Letters to the World: A Poet Turns His Words Into Song
In The Absolute Letter, poet Andrew Joron breaks words down to their constituent parts to reveal their hidden music.
Art
Sociopaths Don’t Cry
A full year after the election, thousands of US citizens wake each morning in shocked disbelief that Donald Trump is our president.
Art
You Are in Good Hands with Matt Connors
Connors has arrived at a synthesis of what, up until now, has been a stylistically identifiable but rather diverse output.