Art
Merrill Wagner's Puzzles in Color and Tape
Wagner’s method is as straightforward as it is mind-bogglingly precise, so much so that it took a great deal of close scrutiny to fully grasp exactly what she is doing.
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One Landscape Architect’s Quest to Understand the American Campsite
Surveying almost 6,500 American campgrounds through their online reservation sites, Martin Hogue mapped the small differences and mass uniformity of this distinct landscape.
Art
A Photographer Who Uses Color to Hint at Her Own Presence
The latest issue of Aperture focuses on Africa and features strong, colorful images by the Kenyan photographer Mimi Cherono Ng’ok.
Art
Shamanistic Paintings as Metaphors for Connectedness
In his first solo show, Franck Lundangi uses mystical imagery to portray links between humans and nature.
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Nancy Spero's Festival of Death
Originally made for the 2007 Venice Biennale, the artist's "Maypole: Take No Prisoners" manifests the spectacle of violence and war.
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When Conceptual Art Makes You Acutely Aware of Your Body
Invisible Man, a group show at Martos Gallery curated by Ebony L. Haynes, gathers works by four artists that subtly call attention to embodied experience and the histories embedded in utilitarian objects.
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Kehinde Wiley's Pantheon of Black Artists
In his new show at Sean Kelly Gallery, the artist has begun to create a register of contemporary black visual artists.
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Students Fight Proposed Cuts to the Humanities at SUNY Stony Brook
To mitigate an anticipated budget shortfall of $1.5 million, Stony Brook University has slated multiple humanities programs for consolidation, including suspending admission of new majors to the Theatre Arts department.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: two men were charged with involuntary manslaughter for the Ghost Ship warehouse fire, Dakota Nation members suspended plans to burn Sam Durant's "Scaffold," and the Rijksmuseum's 10-millionth visitor spent the night under Rembrandt's "The Night Watch."
Art
A 19th-Century Magic Lantern Designed to Quell Patients’ Delusions
In the mid-19th century, Philadelphia physician Thomas Story Kirkbride incorporated magic lantern slides into his "moral treatment" regimen at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.
Books
A Horror Comic Suffused with Satanism and Dense with Dread
Winnebago Graveyard takes readers from a carnival freak show to a hallucinatory black mass.
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Artist Zwelethu Mthethwa Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison for Murder
“The courts need to send a clear message to tackle the scourge of gender-based violence," said Judge Patricia Goliath when she delivered the sentence.