Art
Skull Cup Associated with Lord Byron Heads to Auction
A cup made from a human skull has an inscription that attributes it to Lord Byron, who was known to drink wine from such a vessel.
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In Germany, a Curious Obsession with Cults, Icons, and Ethno-Nationalist Movements
KULT! Legends, stars and images, investigates how the Zeppelin legacy can be read through categories of cults that persist today.
Art
Pope.L’s Conceptual Bottled Water Project Calls Attention to the Crisis in Flint
The famed social practice artist sells bottled water out of a Detroit gallery to highlight the continuing emergency.
Art
Talking About the Challenges and Benefits of Arts Programs for Prisoners
Activists, artists, and community organizers at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles discuss the purposes, challenges, and benefits of arts programs for prisoners.
Art
After Purging Her Possessions, an Artist Paints What Remained
In Possession, Jaye Schlesinger displays the small-scale oil paintings she made for each of the 380 objects she decided to keep.
Art
A Film Gathers a Beloved Brazilian Artist’s Intimate Audio Diaries
A Paixão de JL, screening this week at the New School, gathers the tapes José Leonilson recorded during the last three years of his life.
Announcement
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Welcomes Visitors to its Open Studios, October 19–21
Rarely can one see so many internationally recognized artists working under the same roof in Manhattan.
News
US Civil Rights Sites and Aleppo’s Old Souk Among 25 Threatened Places Around the World
The World Monuments Fund announced the 2018 World Monuments Watch, listing 25 sites, from the hurricane-hit Caribbean to modernist architecture in India.
Books
An Experimental Book Tests Our Ability to Perceive Multiple Mediums Simultaneously
Chilean electronic-music composer Nicolas Jaar's project feels like a cross between an art experience and solving a book of logic puzzles.
News
Chinatown Art Brigade Protests Omer Fast's "Racist" Exhibition at James Cohan Gallery
Dozens of people interrupted James Cohan Gallery's Sunday hours to demand that the gallery and artist take down what the protesters see as "racist aggression towards the community of Chinatown."
Film
A Czech Filmmaker Who Portrayed Eastern Bloc Life Through Women's Eyes
At Doclisboa, a comprehensive look at Vera Chytilová's incisive critiques of gender, family, and love.
Art
Luxurious, Terrifying Visions of Death in Renaissance Memento Mori
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is exhibiting memento mori objects from Renaissance Europe, often grotesquely designed to startle viewers into recognizing mortality.