Books

A Glossy Photo Book Captures a Beautiful But Sanitized Detroit

Michel Arnaud’s book makes a fine addition to any Detroit-lover’s library, but it takes away the elements that make the city real, vital, and colorful.

Art

Smashing Pennies to Protest Industrial Capitalism

After 10 years in the making, two Pittsburgh artists have created a penny machine that spits out coins with designs of endangered animals.

Art

A Wireless Vibration Suit Helps the Deaf “Feel” Music

Developed by Not Impossible Labs, the suit translates sounds into a cascade of vibrations, with different instruments registering in different zones across the body.

Art

The First Edition of the Brooklyn Dirty Book Fair

On July 15 and 16, visit Point Green Studio for a wide selection of pornographic books and zines, a screening of erotic short films, a new performance by M. Lamar, and more.

Art

Dispelling the Myths Around the Hobby Lobby Antiquities Case

The Hobby Lobby case brings up several vital issues relating to cultural heritage, theft, and war in West Asia, and many of our responses have so far been misdirected.

News

Art Movements

This week in art news: A federal judge ordered $81 million be paid to victims of the Knoedler Gallery art forgery, an art investigator believes the work stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in Ireland, and an unpublished book by Maurice Sendak was discovered.

News

Posing for Photo, Gallery Visitor Topples Row of Pedestals Like Dominos [UPDATED]

In an LA exhibition by artist Simon Birch, a visitor lost her balance and damaged $200,000 worth of art.

Art

Adrift in the Waters of Our Dark, Befouled Planet

In John Gerrard’s new series, he digitally renders polluted bodies of water from around the world.

News

Not Just Bushwick: New Study Charts Where NYC Artists Live

While the artist population in Manhattan is in decline, the number of artists in the Bronx nearly doubled since 2000.

News

Brooklyn Academy of Music Digitizes 70,000 Objects Spanning 150 Years of Performance

The Brooklyn Academy of Music's new digital archive features playbills, photographs, videos, audio, and ephemera from a century and a half of theatrical history.

Art

A Dancer Moves and Morphs the Art at the Main Museum

On July 16, choreographer and dancer Mecca Vazie Andrews will reconfigure and respond to Alice Könitz's chair sculptures and Star Montana's photographs from East and South LA.

Comics

Rei Kawakubo’s Funny, Topsy-Turvy Fashion

A survey of the designer's creations for Comme des Garçons is possibly the punkest show ever put on by the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute.