Art
Stroll a Fauvist Shore in a Digital Tribute to André Derain
FAUVISTa is a digital exploration of the Fauvist colors and brushstrokes in André Derain's 1905 "Bateaux à Collioure."
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From the KKK to Darfur, Reflecting on Evil as a Deliberate Act
Evil: A Matter of Intent at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU features works from 1940 to the present, with each addressing evil in its various incarnations.
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Om-believable Buddha in Rings of Lavender
Architect Tadao Ando has created a frame with which to experience the beauty of a giant Buddha sculpture.
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Required Reading
This week, Paris's Lost and Found, a new contemporary museum in South Africa, Google does evil, rescuing a lost Albanian alphabet, logo redux, and more.
Art
Peter Saul Knows What to Do with the President and a Hamburger
Some artists get the honor of having their work displayed in the White House, but chances are Saul will never be one of them.
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Hoot and Holler with Stanley Whitney
Whitney’s drawings cite influences from Harlem Renaissance literature to bebop.
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President Pottymouth
It's not what you think it is — it's just a dirty hole.
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Vienna’s Prodigal Son
The talent and tumult of Richard Gerstl’s work beg the question of what would have been had he not ended his life.
Books
Good Vibrations: Prose Poetry as Stand-Up Comedy
In Jeremy Sigler's My Vibe offers refreshing honesty about failure within the system of calculation and profit.
Art
Robert Irwin's Drawings Without Marks
Irwin's unlit light fixture sculptures encourage us to see and contemplate the entire space, and ourselves within it, as elements of the art.
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The High Drama of Hot Color in a Field of Black
Jason Karolak’s colors grab your attention like flashing LEDs in a dark-as-midnight casino.
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A Fallen Brooklyn Elm Shaped into Objects That Reflect on Immigration
The Witness Tree Project asked RISD students to design objects reflecting on immigration, made from a fallen 150-year-old elm in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.