Interview
“Everything I Do Has the Smell of Digital”: Lorna Mills on Her Art
The Canadian artist Lorna Mills talks about image circulation, digital ownership, and how she obsessively mines the internet for her art.
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Books
The Biodiversity of the World Captured in Five Centuries of Animal Art
Charlotte Sleigh's book The Paper Zoo explores 500 years of scientific animal illustration as seen in the collections of the British Library.
Art
Fixed on Bodies at the Moving Image Art Fair
Despite a new section devoted to virtual reality, the strongest trend running through the 2017 fair is work grounded in the body and its place in society.
Interview
The Queer Art that Helped Define Post-Blackness
In his collection of essays, Derek Conrad Murray explores questions of post-blackness by drawing on the artworks of Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, and Kalup Linzy.
Art
Activists and Lawyers Discuss Tribal Rights at the Hammer Museum
Tonight, the Hammer Museum is hosting the panel discussion Standing Tall for Tribal Rights, held in conjunction with the current retrospective of the work of Jimmie Durham.
Art
The Getty's Online Palmyra Exhibition Falls into Orientalist Traps
A new online exhibition on the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra by the Getty Research Institute forgoes the city's historical complexity to take an Orientalist approach.
Art
In a Rundown Phnom Penh Neighborhood, Graffiti and Street Art Thrive
Graffiti in Cambodia has not historically been very common, but that’s changing fast.
Art
The High Stakes of Lowrider and Chicano Culture in Three Documentaries
A slate of three short films at UnionDocs examines Chicano culture in the Bronx and Japan.
Art
The First Known Depiction of the Cosmos Adorns a 3,600-Year-Old Disk
Discovered in 1999 in Germany, the 3,600-year-old Nebra Sky Disk is recognized as the oldest known depiction of cosmic phenomena.
Art
Everybody Likes "Like Art"
"Like Art," a type of bright, attention-grabbing work that aims for easy acceptance by servicing screen-tap culture, is everywhere.
Art
Abstracting the Data of the Natural World with Colorful Geometries
Julie Wolfe tries to make sense of the natural world by gathering and categorizing all kinds of sights and objects that offer no scientific information but inspire search for meaning, like puzzles.
Books
The Psychedelic Pollution Floating in the Gowanus Canal
Steven Hirsch's photographs capture unexpected beauty in one of America's most polluted waterways.