Art
After Her Work Was Misattributed to Men, a 19th-Century Woman Gets Her Due
A chance encounter with some 19th-century watercolors at Canada's Confederation Centre of the Arts revealed decades of misattribution for the work of a Victorian woman.
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The Only Known Film Footage of Marcel Proust, or Proust Descending a Staircase
In the first footage discovered showing Marcel Proust, he speedily descends a staircase at a wedding.
Art
How the Met's Sale of a Max Beckmann Painting Changed US Museums
Beckmann's "Self-Portrait with Cigarette" belonged to the Metropolitan Museum until 1971, when its deaccession set off a series of disputes that reshaped museum practices.
Film
The Banality of Concentration Camp Tourism
We are attracted to the places where bad things have happened, but we rarely reflect on what actually occurred therein.
News
A Metal Prefab House from the 1930s Finds a Home in Palm Springs
This week, the 1931 metal Aluminaire House arrived in Palm Springs, where it will finally be reassembled after years in storage.
Interview
Why an Apache Artist’s Photos Are Inextricable from His Activism
Standing Fox, a leader of the Apache Stronghold movement, talks about how activism plays an important part in his life as an Apache artist.
Comics
The Art of the Town Board Meeting
Politics is local.
Art
An Artist Draws Out America's Buried and Fenced-off Toxic Sites
The artist Joan Linder makes exhaustive, panoramic drawings of toxic and radioactive sites in the United States, gathering a record of government indifference as she goes.
Art
50 Years of Indigenous Fashion at the National Museum of the American Indian
Native Fashion Now brings together works by 67 designers and artists from the US and Canada who are melding generations-old practices and contemporary couture.
Art
Meditative Light Art with Dark Undertones
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Tatsuo Miyajima uses light to reflect on the transcendent, spiritual, and experiential aspects of time.
Art
Thousands of 1960s Architecture Slides Go on View at LAXART
In the late 1960s the West Coast media collective Environmental Communications shot hundreds of thousands of slides of the everyday and alternative architectures around them.
Art
Responding to Human Remains with Crocheted Skeletons and Beaded Organs
Sabrina Small and Caitlin McCormack explore the life and decay of the human body in sculptural fiber art at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia.