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Art
An Exhibition About Blindness Engages All the Senses
In Naples, using sight, sound, voice, and movement to evoke the varied experiences of blindness.
Books
The Stories of 100 Midcentury Chairs
Midcentury modernism continues to inspire our desire to sit on something beautiful and fashionable.
Art
Images from Boston’s Island of Exile
Mark Lamster's The Island That Nobody Knows explores Boston's Deer Island, a former prison and quarantine site that now houses the city's sewage plant.
Art
A Mixtape for Every Year of the History of Recorded Sound
Considering the soundscapes of yesteryear, one man is offering us his mixtapes from the history of audio recordings.
Comics
What If This Is Your Very Last Idea?
Well, you know the anxiety is always there.
News
Jim Henson's Muppet Prototypes and Sketches Prove He Was a Genius, No Strings Attached
At the Museum of the Moving Image, The Jim Henson Exhibition spans Henson's career and highlights the conceptual and technical innovations of the groundbreaking puppeteer and his creative collaborators.
Art
A Retrospective of Edgar Heap of Birds Rises High
With public art pieces, biting political, text-based work, and more intimate abstract paintings, this small exhibition illuminates Heap of Birds’s expansive career.
Art
Required Reading
This week, museum image rights, the inventor of the Papyrus font speaks, why a museum curator quit, is the internet changing time, and more.
Books
Stan Brakhage Defines His Filmmaking Practice with Metaphors
Metaphors On Vision, Stan Brakhage’s first book, is highly peculiar for a fully fleshed out credo on cinema, for it contains prose poetry, scripts, script fragments, sketches, and letters.
Art
How August Sander and Otto Dix Recorded Fascism's Rise
Questions posed in a two-artist exhibition at Tate Liverpool reflect back on our own politically desperate era, often with eerie resonance.
Music
Tom Petty R.I.P.
For Tom Petty, rock 'n' roll means playing a good show for the crowd every night, every week, every month, indefinitely.