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.
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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.
Performance
Unraveling the Complicated Confederate Legacy, One Strand at a Time
Sonya Clark's performance Unraveling comes at a time when racists feel newly emboldened to display their bigotry.
Music
The Killers’ Glamor, Sincerity, and Kitsch
Wonderful Wonderful is almost embarrassingly intense, indecorously intimate, forgetting to blush while expressing feelings too huge for the songs to contain.
Art
Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, New York City’s Greatest Flaneurs
Burckhardt and Denby are central figures in New York’s cultural history, even if they are not as well known as they should be.
Art
Disarming North Korea With Pizza and Sports
What could Dennis Rodman, kimchee pizza, and the Olympic Committee do for world peace?
Art
Visualizing the Imaginary and Unseen
Nicolas Carone questions our understanding of the image and gives us no definitive answers.