Books
Photographers Document the Mutilation of Redwood Trees by Poachers
For Live Burls: Poaching the Redwoods, photographers Kirk Crippens and Gretchen LeMaistre documented the rampant theft of redwood burls in California.
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Art
Documenting the Many Contradictions of Contemporary China
The Guggenheim's series Turn It On: China on Film, 2000–2017, curated by Ai Weiwei and Wang Fen, gathers documentaries by Chinese artists and filmmakers.
Books
Glowing Photographs of East and West Divided by the Iron Curtain
East/West features Harry Gruyaert's photographs of Moscow, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas in the 1980s, each saturated with Kodachrome colors.
News
Curator Called Before Senate Hearing as Brazil's Right-Wing Groups Target the Arts
The curator of an exhibition on queer art, which was subsequently shut down, is being investigated by the senate for harming children with art.
Art
A Pop-Up Alterations Shop Run by an Artist Considers the Cost of Labor
On Black Friday, textile artist and activist Carole Frances Lung will examine unseen networks of labor and capital in the garment industry.
In Brief
From Benefit to Blockbuster, a Kerry James Marshall Painting's Dramatic Flip
A Kerry James Marshall work originally donated to a museum's benefit auction sold at Christie's for a record-setting price.
Art
A Trio of Political Photographs Rendered in Lint
History is never objective and our relationship to the narrative is often deeply personal.
Art
As the New Museum of the Bible Opens, Questions About its Scholarship Remain
The Museum of the Bible has the potential to reach a much greater audience than any individual scholar and there is real concern that it will selectively use scholarship to promote an evangelical Protestant view of the Bible and religion.
Art
The Surprising Eloquence of Mass-Produced Materials
Jessica Vaughn's show of restrained conceptual works subtly evokes the experiential dimension of mass-produced objects.
Art
The Shazam for Typefaces Will Tell You If That's Helvetica or Futura
The mobile app WhatTheFont, recently revamped with machine learning, claims to correctly identify typefaces encountered IRL 90% of the time.
Art
Measuring the Worth of Renaissance Art in Cows
Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the cost of a cow to consider the worth of 16th-century objects.
Comics
My Secret Life as an Artist and Spy
The world is full of secrets and I'm trying to decode them one by one.