Art
Nari Ward Gets the G.O.A.T.
With his current show at Socrates Sculpture Park, Nari Ward takes the lawn ornament to some odd, hallucinatory places.
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NEA, NEH, and Smithsonian Would Lose Millions in Funding in House Appropriations Committee Bill
The Committee's Interior and Environment Appropriations bill now goes before the Senate, where a final federal budget for 2018 will be hammered out in the coming months.
News
A 19th-Century Archaeologist's Collection of Images of Rome Goes Online
Nearly 4,000 records from Rodolfo Lanciani's personal archive are searchable through a new online database.
Art
A Museum Built Among Ancient Ruins Impels an Inward Gaze
In other museums, fragments of the past are isolated into forgotten history, but at Kolumba, they are part of a dynamic whole.
Art
Beverly Buchanan's Shack Sculptures Feel at Home in Detroit
An exhibition at David Klein Gallery brings together Buchanan's evocative shack constructions and pastel drawings.
Books
A Fragmented Portrait of the Last Male Northern White Rhino
The images in Giovanna Silva's new book are beautiful, but they’re simultaneously awash with heavy gloom.
Art
A Browser Game Recreates the Tedium of a 1990s Office Job
Pippin Barr's game It is as if you were doing work simulates the distractions and mundane tasks of the office, imagined for a future when work is replaced by machines.
Art
Hear Women Art Dealers Talk Gender Equity
On Wednesday, July 19, veteran and emerging women gallerists will discuss how dealers can do more to promote diversity and equity in the art world.
Performance
A Shadow Puppet Performance Delves into Dementia and Post-Industrial Detroit
Performed at the Columbia Festival of the Arts, Manual Cinema’s The End of TV impressively incorporates shadow puppetry, live actors, video feeds, a live quintet, and lots of cutout paper props.
Books
Interconnected Comics Examine People’s Relationships to Home
In her new graphic novel Something City, artist Ellice Weaver explores all corners of her fictive metropolis.
Art
A Painter's Fantasies Rendered as Cartoonish Dramas
Satoshi Kojima’s paintings don’t examine human relationships — they fondle them like a bear fondles picnic food.
News
Scientists Encode Living DNA with Muybridge’s Galloping Horse Film
Harvard scientists successfully recorded five frames of Eadweard Muybridge's 1887 galloping horse on living bacteria, and retrieved the images in sequence.