Art
Selling Sticks and a Slap in the Face: Artists Intervene in eBay
For the project #exstrange, artists from around the globe disrupted eBay as a way of facilitating exchanges among strangers.
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Art
At the Denver Airport, Art Fuels Conspiracy Theorists
The city of Denver is considering deaccessioning one of the most ambitious installations at its airport, but its art collection has long served as a source of inspiration and consternation.
In Brief
Police Destroy Art Installation, Mistaking It for Cannabis Farm
A narchitectural mishap killed the buzz surrounding the closing celebrations for Lyon’s first architectural biennial.
Film
A Korean Punk Band’s Struggles with Censorship
Jung Yoon-Suk’s documentary Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno tells the story of the college punk duo Bamseom Pirates and the arrest of the band’s producer after posting controversial tweets.
Art
A VR Documentary on Animal Surveillance Tracks a Grizzly’s Life
Bear 71 VR is an interactive documentary that uses trail camera footage and animal tracking to follow the life of one grizzly in Banff National Park.
Books
The Rainbow of Japan’s LGBTQ Identity, Captured in Photos
Queer people in Japan are in the spotlight in the latest installment of a book series that documents LGBTQ lives around the world.
Announcement
SVA Presents And Then, the 2017 MFA Visual Narrative Exhibition
The thesis show features hand-stitched collaged picture books, faux-realistic notebooks, pixelated video games, and fully realized digital environments
Art
A Brief History of Contemporary Art in Myanmar
Burmese artists have weathered the changes from British colony to free country to military state, building a small but vital creative community along the way.
Art
The Novelty and Excess of American Design During the Jazz Age
Through over 400 objects, the Cooper Hewitt's dynamic Jazz Age exhibition highlights 1920s American design.
Art
Cuban Artists Find Escape and Entrapment in the Sea
On the Horizon: Internal Landscapes is the first exhibition in a series dedicated to contemporary Cuban art at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, following a massive donation of work from the region.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the winners of Dronestagram, the Utah teapot, font culture wars, Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Press
"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."