Books
The Curious Histories of Colors, from Beige to Heliotrope
These stories about the origins of hues makes for a colorful read.
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Art
Mining Mineral Structures with Watercolor and Sediment
Mineral geometries and natural forms inspire delicate artworks with fractal patterns and meticulous details.
News
Central Park's First Statue of Historic Women Will Honor Two Suffragettes
On the centennial of women's suffrage in New York state, the Parks Department dedicated a site for a forthcoming statue of two of the movement's leaders: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Art
The Wartime Quilts Made by Men from Military Uniforms
The American Folk Art Museum in New York is exhibiting wartime quilts made by British soldiers from their uniforms in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Announcement
Call for Applications: Roman J. Witt Residency at U-M’s Stamps School of Art & Design
Open to both established and emerging artists and designers, Witt Residents receive an honorarium of $20,000 in addition to housing, studio space, and up to $4,000 funding support for project materials.
Performance
A Surrealist Satire by Luis Buñuel Becomes a Grim Opera
The Metropolitan Opera's lone contemporary production this season is an adaptation of Buñuel's 1962 film about the Spanish aristocracy, The Exterminating Angel.
Comics
Is Any Artist Truly Satisfied?
We all live somewhere between ambition and reality.
Art
A Gallery in a Truck Fuels Up on Anti-Patriarchal Art
The inaugural exhibition at Gas, a new Los Angeles gallery located in a box truck, offers a range of routes for making anti-fascist art.
Art
Required Reading
This week, MVRDV's stunning Tianjin Binhai Library, cybercrime in galleries, a history of protest posters, the nationalist critics of the Taj Mahal, and much more.
Art
The Vibrant Palette of Raghubir Singh’s India
Singh did justice to the most layered and dense figurations of his Indian homeland.
Art
On the Road with Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud gets you to think about the folly and hubris of shaping the landscape to suit our needs.
Art
The Skeletons in History’s Closet
When do we stop believing that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man?