Art
Magic Mushrooms in an Unmagical Show
Magic mushrooms can create a headspace where erudition and imagination become artistic affiliates, but in this show, the trickster disorientation of collage is the closest we get to that experience.
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Japanese Playgrounds at Night
Photographer Kito Fujio has spent the last three years traveling his country to capture its playful, surreal, and organic playground equipment.
Art
Photograms that Capture Darkness and the Flicker of Fireflies
Michael Flomen's first photographs were made with the light of fireflies, inspiring a series of work that converses with rain water, earth, and plant life.
Film
Mother! Is a Wild Ride, But Is It Also Strangely Feminist?
The film has elicited intense reactions with its super-saturated horror, but it also has a campy streak with feminist implications.
In Brief
X-Rays of Degas Sculptures Illuminate His Unconventional Process
Conservation scientists at the Fitzwilliam Museum shed some light on the everyday objects forming the armatures of three surviving beeswax sculptures.
Art
Step Inside a Lunar Eclipse
In Lunar Eclipse, an immersive installation and musical performance, a stylized rendering of the titular celestial phenomenon will be projected onto an inflatable dome.
Art
A Festival Fosters Exchange Between Artists from LA and Mexico City
This year the Los Angeles Exchange Festival is starting a tradition of artistic exchange with other cities, beginning with Mexico City.
History
The First Printed Illustration of a Modern Dissection
Published in the late 15th century, the Fasciculus Medicinae contains the earliest depiction of a modern dissection, a groundbreaking representation for anatomy.
Announcement
What’s Kinetic Imaging?
VCUarts’ Kinetic Imaging MFA program offers a hybrid, in depth inquiry into emerging media and video, sound, and animated art.
Art
15 Questions About Kara Walker's Latest Exhibition
Who is made whole by Walker's decontextualized images of violence correlated with race, gender, sex, and with chattel slavery and the social practices devolving from that historical circumstance?
Art
Drive a Hand-Drawn Tram for Cats in This Illustrated Game
Artist Alexander Perrin's Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive game in which players drive a trolley for cats.
Art
How Soviet Art and Design Promoted Communism After the Revolution
The Paper Revolution at the ADAM: Brussels Design Museum unite close to 100 original works on paper from a variety of artistic Soviet luminaries.