Art

Six Dancers Make Ephemeral Marks on Rockaway Beach

In a work choreographed by Madeline Hollander, six dancers and a truck will chase each other on the beach on August 26.

Art

A Mythical Memoir of Pre-1900 LA Turned into Theater

The Rogue Artists Ensemble is celebrating the 1942 book Señor Plummer: The Life and Laughter of an Old-Californian with a new performance from August 24 to 26.

News

Philadelphia’s Fight to Remove a Monument to Former Mayor Frank Rizzo [UPDATED]

Like the Confederate monuments around the country, the sculpture of Rizzo is salt in an open wound for many of the city’s residents of color.

News

From the Bronx to Brooklyn, Confederate Symbols Come Down Across New York City

Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched a review of "all symbols of hate on city property," and some have already been removed.

Art

The Dance Floor as a Site for Queer Memorials

This Friday at Recess, Brendan Fernandes will explore the possibilities of the dance floor as a queer space.

Art

A Dutch Street Photographer Who Pursued Darker Truths

A retrospective of Ed van der Elsken at the Jeu de Paume in Paris examines his embrace of youth culture and his travels around the world.

Announcement

Maine College of Art's American Genre: Contemporary Painting Closes September 15 with Daylong Symposium

Currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, the show will end with a symposium and a panel discussion moderated by Barry Schwabsky.

Art

A 1980s-Style Game Takes You Through a Wikipedia Rabbit Hole

Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by Kevan Davis turns Wikipedia's data into a pixelated game that you navigate through typed directions.

Art

Women of Color Find Their Rightful Place in the History of American Abstraction

According to the Kemper Museum, Magnetic Fields is the first museum exhibit in the US to show abstract artwork created exclusively by women of color.

Art

A Designer's Game About Arranged Marriages, Inspired by Her Own Journey

In Nashra Balagamwala's board game, players are teenage girls pursued by an aunty who wants to marry them to any boy she can locate.

Art

A Pop-Up Museum Devoted to O.J. Simpson

Adam Papagan's O.J. Simpson Museum at Coagula Curatorial is baldly commercial, but it also demonstrates how much of a cultural touchstone the famous trial has become.

History

A Nostalgic Trip Through Roadside America's Weirdest Sites

The Library of Congress has digitized and uploaded some 11,000 slides of images shot by photographer John Margolies as he traveled more than 100,000 miles over a three-decade period.