Art
Mourning Extinction with a Museum’s Animal Artifacts
In Next of Kin at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, artist Christina Seely repurposes natural history specimens for an emotional exhibition about animal extinction.
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Creative Responses to Trump’s Plan to End the National Endowment for the Arts
It's only been a little over a day since Donald Trump formally proposed defunding the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, but already people in creative fields are responding, well, creatively.
Books
A Photographer’s 16-Year Project to Capture the Contemporary Séance
Shannon Taggart started photographing the mediums of Lily Dale in 2001, and for 16 years after has documented the séances and practices of modern Spiritualism.
Art
Peeping Through a Painted, Sculpted Jungle
In Adrienne Elise Tarver's installation at Victori + Mo, the viewer is compelled to play the role of a voyeur peering through a jungle canopy.
Art
A Fanfare of Flags: Unwoven, Repurposed, Quilted, and Performed
'State of the World' unfolds a complex dialogue about the symbolic, physical, conceptual, and material nature of the flag.
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Explore Japan’s Art and Design Treasures
JAPAN 99+1: Traveling Through Art, Design, and Architecture is a newly released print and companion website of some of Japan’s best spots for the traveler looking beyond the typical tourist areas.
Art
An Anthropological Look at Weapons of War as Objects of Art
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard explores centuries of weapons from around the world that double as works of art.
Books
Chronicling the Days When Superheroes Knocked Out Nazis
The new book Take That, Adolf! compiles classic comic book covers that show how American superheroes were marshaled into service during World War II.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: President Trump proposed to eliminate the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, a London gallery was evicted over its far-right agenda, and artist Zwelethu Mthethwa was convicted of murder.
Art
A Pair of Curatorial Provocateurs Gets an Improbable Museum Survey
Triple Candie were, depending whom you ask, either subversive and brilliant or irrationally misguided.
Art
A Plague of Digital Rats for Your Desktop
"DESCENT" is a downloadable, digital artwork that's inspired by both Bruegel and the Black Death.
Art
Video Art Meets Psychotherapy at EFA Project Space
A program on March 18–19 will look at how video art and psychotherapy both bred narcissism in the 1970s.