Art
The 65 Symbols on US Military Tombstones
While American military cemeteries may look uniform with their rows of cross-adorned tombs, look closer and you'll find Wiccan Pentacles, Atheist Atoms, and the Hammer of Thor.
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Required Reading
This week, South Korea's HighLine, the new Marciano Art Foundation in LA, gentrifying African art, chemtrail conspiracy theorists, peak latte, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Violin
"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."
Books
The Uncanny Body: Jennifer Firestone's Gates and Fields
At its center, the book offers the refusal to accept an already-formulated understanding of loss that lies at the heart of the experience of grief.
Books
Julio Cortázar's Literature Class
Circumscribing his goals and ambitions, Cortázar says that “in the present day, what matters is not to be a writer from Latin America but to be, above all, a Latin American writer.”
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Florine Stettheimer’s Vision of Equality
Stettheimer was born into a wealthy, financially secure Jewish family, and she never had to work. For some people, her wealth means that she did not suffer enough to be an artist, and therefore her work does not have enough gravity.
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Demolition Detail
The presence of a mattress and the trauma of displacement.
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The Future Is (Still) Female: Feminist Art for the 21st Century
The Future Is Female focuses primarily on the work of women artists who came of age after the Women’s Art Movement.
Music
Twelve Reasons Why the Chainsmokers Are Failing at Love
Such is the appeal of the blank slate.
Art
Books, Wefts, and Black Lives Matter at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The rewards of what is in plain sight far outweigh what is tucked away.
Art
Pippa Garner's Crossover Art of Gizmos, Gadgets, and Gender
Garner has been an absurdist for four decades, satirizing consumerism, marketing, and waste in performance art, videos, sculpture, installations, drawings and magazine editorials and art pages.
Books
A Study of Art Galleries Reveals Their Aesthetic of Transcendental Experience
David Carrier’s The Contemporary Art Gallery is a small but well-stocked treasury of first-hand observations by someone who’s spent a lot of time in art galleries, but who has retained enough critical distance to see them with a certain objectivity.