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.

Announcement

The ICA at Maine College of Art Presents American Genre: Contemporary Painting, Curated by Michelle Grabner

The exhibition is built on a triad of traditional painting genres: still life, landscape, and portraiture.

Art

A Ceremony Invites You to Trade Objects and Learn About Cooperation

On July 20–22, Iván Navarro and Courtney Smith will choreograph a trio of performances with 24 to 40 volunteers at the Garey Building.

News

Apple Unveils 12 of 69 New Emoji, from a Zombie to a Genie 🙃

Soon you’ll be able to text your bearded male friend about zombies launching coconuts from the backs of mermaids!

In Brief

Flooding Damages Three Paintings and Multiple Rooms at the Louvre

France's National Library and Ministry of Culture also suffered water damage during a deluge on the night of July 9.

News

Protesters Call for Boycott of B&H Photo After Company Ignores Workers' Demands

After B&H Photo refused to reconsider its decision to move operations at two Brooklyn warehouses to New Jersey, protesters are demanding a boycott of the company.

Art

The Playful, Feminist Sculptures of a Member of the Peruvian Avant-Garde

Teresa Burga's first solo museum exhibition in the United States focuses on her contributions to the Peruvian avant-garde and questioning of art-world hierarchies.

In Brief

Amede-No! Modigliani Show Shut Down After 21 Works Deemed Likely Fakes

The exhibition, at the Doge's Palace in Genoa, included pieces on loan from private collections and major institutions like the Musée de l'Orangerie and the Fitzwilliam Museum.

News

A Call to Save a Floating Performance Space by Louis Kahn [UPDATED]

A 50-year-old floating performance space designed by architect Louis Kahn may be sent to a Louisiana shipyard for scrap at the end of this year's tour.