Art
Trump in Hell
They used to call Satan the Greedy one, the Father of Lies. There's a new boss in the underworld who's gonna show them how its done.
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Interview
Beer with a Painter: Paul Wackers
The cozy studio environment and the casual, gonzo aesthetic of the ceramic objects, not to mention Wackers’s personality, may bely how technically precise and complexly orchestrated his paintings are.
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Changes on the Land: 19th-Century American Photography East of the Mississippi
East of the Mississippi highlights how early photographic efforts homed in on Americans’ leisure pursuits, particularly travel to popular getaway spots such as Niagara Falls and New England’s White Mountains.
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The Heroes and Villains of New York's Changing Cityscape
There once was a time when the resistance movements of New York pushed back against the regimenting, state-sponsored programs known as “urban renewal.”
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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.
Books
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.
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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.
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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Originally made for the 2007 Venice Biennale, the artist's "Maypole: Take No Prisoners" manifests the spectacle of violence and war.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.
News
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.