Art
An Artist Who Conveys Messages from the Dead
Self-taught artist George Kornegay created found-object environments for communing with the spirit world.
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Film
A Spectacle of Fables and Fascism
In a new documentary, Tuscan townspeople turn the crises of their lives into the stuff of drama.
Books
When a Poem's Wrongness Is Right
The leap between image and utterance in Anthony Madrid's poetry is the challenge and, sometimes, the delight.
Books
The Surrealist Satire of Leonora Carrington
These stunningly strange, arrestingly intellectual constructs treat the human imagination with humor and forgiveness.
Art
The Passion and Pain of Carol Rama
Rama's paintings confront us with empowered female sexuality and insanity.
Art
Tend to Your Goats as the Apocalypse Approaches in This Meditative Game
Where The Goats Are starts as an idyllic farming game, but the horrors of the post-apocalyptic setting can't be ignored.
News
LA’s New Contemporary Art Museum Celebrates a Flexible, Collectionless Model
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, located in a converted clothing factory on the edge of the Arts District, officially opens on September 9.
Art
Artist Turns Police Cruiser into a Tribute to Law & Order Detective Lennie Briscoe
For "ORBACH1," Brandon Bird transformed a formerly black 2008 police cruiser found on Craigslist into an airbrushed rolling masterpiece commemorating his hero.
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Winner of a BP Portrait Award Donates Share of Prize Money to Anti-BP Protests
The 26-year-old winner of this year's BP Young Artist Award donated £1,000 to fund Greenpeace's anti-BP efforts.
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Folk Artist and Abolitionist Sheldon Peck to Be Honored with Historic Marker
A roadside marker in Jordan, New York, will commemorate the former home of 19th-century folk artist and abolitionist Sheldon Peck.
Art
What We Lose and Gain in Recreating Antiquities
In his exhibition at at Galeria Mascota, Miguel Angel Salazar revives a cenotaph, showing that it's both easier than ever to rewrite history, and more difficult to erase it.
Art
A Mobile Museum Brings Miniature Art to Rural Vermont
Matt Neckers’s Mobile Museum is a mimic which can also be read as a caricature and critique of the modern museum’s banality.