In Brief
Lift Off from Your Laptop with 140,000 Images and Videos from NASA
The agency recently launched a new online database of files documenting its history, from space missions to in-house experiments.
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Art
A Workshop for Knowing Your Rights When Protesting
This Wednesday, LACE and the Center for Cultural Innovation are hosting the workshop "Know Your Rights: Artists & Civil Disobedience," led by the National Lawyers Guild.
In Brief
Pepsi’s Tasteless Protest Commercial Gets Memed
Pepsi's recent and risible "protest" ad has birthed memes that liken it to everything from Tiananmen Square's "Tank Man" to Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother."
Art
A Contemporary Take on "The Waste Land" at Knockdown Center
A collaboration between artist Liliya Lifanova, composer Hiroya Miura, and choreographer Davy Bisaro debuts this week with open rehearsals and a performance.
Art
This Addictive M.C. Escher Video Game Might Make You Puke
Antoine Zanuttini's Fragments of Euclid is a downright mind-bending game inspired by M.C. Escher's labyrinthine interiors.
Comics
The Irony of Day Jobs
Decisions, decisions.
Art
The Messy Politics of Documenta's Arrival in Athens
As documenta opens for the first time in Athens, Greek artists and anthropologists are closely observing how the German quinquennial will respond to its new location.
Art
Bouquets Highlight Plants Used to Control Women’s Reproductive Health
An exhibition looks at plant remedies that women have used to control their reproductive lives.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the story of Emmett Till's image in the coffin, New York's new copper skyscrapers, Damien Hirst is back, why authoritarians hate the arts, calorie counts for cannibals, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Mask
"A mask of gold hides all deformities."
Books
An Art of Dislocation and Reinvention Reflects the Epic of Black America
Quite simply, the history, not just of art in Los Angeles, but of modern American art generally will have to be reconceived on the basis of Now Dig This!, the exhibition curated by Kellie Jones, and her new book, South of Pico.
Books
Pitching Poetry: Charles Bernstein's Essays and Interviews
From the outset of his career Bernstein has fought for a poetry of leaps and fissures, one that inhabits the space between logic and irrationality.