Books

Barron Trump Turned into a Beautiful Manga Boy

In the first episode, Barron team up with Sasha and Malia Obama to investigate a “mysterious anomaly” brought about by the rise of the 45th president.

Announcement

An Evening with Werner Herzog at Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute’s Film/Video Department and School of Art invite you to a conversation between legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog and film and media curator Sally Berger.

Art

Brutalism and Traditional Khmer Design Come Together in Phnom Penh's Hiroshima House

Osamu Ishiyama's structure exemplifies the surprising adaptability of humans in the face of dehumanizing events.

In Brief

Trump Budget Calls for End to National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities [UPDATED]

The president's budget proposal for 2018 would do away with the two funding agencies and ramp up military spending by $54 billion.

News

Artist Zwelethu Mthethwa Convicted of Murder [UPDATED]

The artist, who has been on trial for the murder of a sex worker named Nokuphila Kumalo for nearly four years, will be sentenced on March 29.

Interview

“Documentary Reporting Has Become So Rigid”: Adam Curtis on Storytelling Today

The journalist and documentary filmmaker discusses his recent film HyperNormalisation and past projects, as well as his plans to make a documentary on the West's relationship with Russia.

Art

Living in Raymond Pettibon’s America

We seem to finally be catching up to what the artist has been saying through his work all along — that things are bad, and they always have been.

Comics

Tips for Watercolor at -25 Degrees

A not-exactly how-to guide.

Books

The Modernist Flourishes of Aging Postwar Architecture

Extra Normal features Serge Fruehauf's photographs from two decades documenting the strange and surreal details of postwar architecture in Europe.

Film

A Sibling's Documentary About His Brother's Mysterious Murder

In Strong Island, Yance Ford lays out the peculiar circumstances that surrounded his brother's murder in 1992, and the void left in its wake.

Books

The Dynamic Brain Drawings of the Father of Modern Neuroscience

A publication from Abrams Books and a traveling exhibit currently at the Weisman Art Museum highlight the medical illustrations of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.

Art

Artists Talk Totalitarianism at LA’s Museum Devoted to the Cold War

On Thursday, the photographer Farrah Karapetian and painter Christopher Wyrick will launch a conversation series at the Wende Museum in Culver City.