History
The First Printed Illustration of a Modern Dissection
Published in the late 15th century, the Fasciculus Medicinae contains the earliest depiction of a modern dissection, a groundbreaking representation for anatomy.
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What’s Kinetic Imaging?
VCUarts’ Kinetic Imaging MFA program offers a hybrid, in depth inquiry into emerging media and video, sound, and animated art.
Art
15 Questions About Kara Walker's Latest Exhibition
Who is made whole by Walker's decontextualized images of violence correlated with race, gender, sex, and with chattel slavery and the social practices devolving from that historical circumstance?
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Drive a Hand-Drawn Tram for Cats in This Illustrated Game
Artist Alexander Perrin's Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive game in which players drive a trolley for cats.
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How Soviet Art and Design Promoted Communism After the Revolution
The Paper Revolution at the ADAM: Brussels Design Museum unite close to 100 original works on paper from a variety of artistic Soviet luminaries.
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At the Brooklyn Museum, New Research on Lynching in America Dialogues with the Art
The Legacy of Lynching is a collaboration between the museum and the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, presenting racial histories we've long been asleep to.
Comics
What Should the Great American Painting Depict?
When the painter William Morris Hunt set out to distill the American spirit to its essence, he was faced with a familiar dilemma.
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Required Reading
This week, Algerian women in 19th-century art, adjunct problems, foldable homes, US's most famous Neo-Nazi artist is back in the news, the Christian monks that saved Jewish history, and more.
Books
Vivian Maier, the Photographer Who Wanted to Go Unobserved
Maier didn’t want people to know where she lived, and often lied about her personal history.
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Kinetic Sculptures Animate US History
John Buck’s ambitious kinetic installations are excoriating indictments of the current political administration.
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The Raging Optimism of Sally Saul
Sally Saul makes sculptures that are funny, sweet, and tender – states we are not likely to encounter in art or even in life.
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Lessons of Yom Kippur
I am nonreligious and I don't practice Yom Kippur's rituals, but I appreciate its teachings.