Art
Ancient Mediterranean Oil Lamps Capture the Pop Culture of Their Time
J. Paul Getty Museum published a free, digital catalogue documenting one of the richest troves of lamps from the ancient Mediterranean world.
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Help Solve a Global Crisis Through an Online Puzzle
Since 2008, the Foldit game has engaged the public in solving puzzles for science. Now it's tackling crop contamination.
Film
The First Animation Is Film Festival Showcases the Best of Today's Animation
The festival presents exceptional films in all styles of animation, from anime to stop-motion.
Books
Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models Let You Build the Miniature Guggenheim of Your Dreams
With Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models by Marc Hagan-Guirey, you can build tiny models of Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, and Taliesin West.
News
Performance Artist Who Exposed Herself In Front of the “Mona Lisa” Is Acquitted
On Wednesday, Deborah De Robertis was acquitted for her performance in which she shouted, “Mona Lisa, my pussy, my copyright,” while revealing her vagina.
Books
Photobooks Designed to Treat Dementia Gently Challenge the Mind
By pairing unrelated images that share surprising similarities, Photographic Treatment by Laurence Aëgerter encourages dementia patients to make their own connections between them, stimulating mental activity.
Books
The 1960s Photographer Who Documented the Peace Sign as a Political Symbol
Jim Marshall photographed the spread of the peace sign between 1961 and 1968, with his images now published for the first time by Reel Art Press.
Art
How an Artist's Activism Nurtured His Painting
This exhibition is a ten-year survey concentrating on Peter Krashes's paintings that emerged in an almost symbiotic relationship with his political involvement as a community organizer.
Art
An Artist Reimagines His Ancestors Through Costumed Self-Portraits
What separates Ken Gonzales-Day’s exhibition Bone-Grass Boy from the mass of artwork addressing the politics of representation is its investment in intimate autobiography.
Art
Performa 17 is Inspired by the Anarchic, Restlessly Inventive Spirit of Dada
At a moment as dystopian and erratic as Dada itself, the performance biennial presents work rife with whimsy and depth to confront complex histories and a stupefying present.
Interview
Carolee Schneemann on Five Decades of Meat, Harnesses, and Innovation
In which Schneemann discusses rejecting academic language, reveling in flesh, how any respectable gallery needs a "token cunt," and, naturally, cats.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Anti-gentrification groups protested Omer Fast’s exhibition in Chinatown, a campaign was launched to save an iconic artwork on Auschwitz, and reporter Tim O’Brien recalled an exchange with Donald Trump over a Renoir knock-off.