Art
Virginia Wagner’s Landscapes of Exquisite Dread
Wagner would agree with Samuel Beckett, that “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
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Ruination and Rumination on the Anthropocene
Patty Chang's ecological art struggles with its own fatalism.
Art
Photos from the Dashboard
Robert Marshall's dreamlike images are fleeting, fragmentary glimpses out the window of a moving car or train.
Art
The High Life of Vermeer and his Contemporaries
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting reinserts Vermeer into the tradition in which he worked, both demystifying his paintings and lending force to his particular take on the genre.
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Virtually Explore Centuries of Human Settlement Along the South Carolina Coast
Between the Waters is an interactive documentary on the centuries of human settlement in South Carolina's Hobcaw Barony.
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Astrological Aesthetics: December 2017 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms.
Books
Rebellious, But Still Sexist: Revisiting a Giant of Underground Comix
A new book on Spain Rodriguez revisits his innovative repertoire, but ignores the extent to which some of his comix revel in the sexism regularly broadcast in the era’s male-authored strips.
Books
A Satiric History of Video Games
Do the games Earthworm Gym, Lizard Designer Pro, Vin Diesel's Weasel Easel, Silent Butcher, or Wrestlechess intrigue you? If so, then this book is for you.
News
Over 120 Prominent Artists and Scholars Call on NYC to Take Down Racist Monuments
In a letter to the Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, the signatories advocate for the removal of monuments to Christopher Columbus, J. Marion Sims, and Teddy Roosevelt.
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An Artist Is Rescued After Chaining Himself to a Marble Block for 19 Days
After attempting to chisel away at the four-ton block of marble, the Belgian artist Mikes Poppe was rescued from his heavy metaphor for the weight of tradition.
Art
This Colossal Goat Sculpture Is a Swedish Tradition, and Almost Every Year It Goes Up in Flames
Since the 1960s, the city of Gävle in Sweden has annually built a towering Yule goat, and almost every year someone burns it down.
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Activists Project Messages of Resistance and Solidarity on Border Wall Prototypes
"We're really here to point that out that this is not an appropriate use of American technology," said a member of Artcolectivist, a binational group involved in the light graffiti-project.