Comics
How Images Help Us Understand War
Since the US Civil War, photographs has changed the way we understand war.
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Art
A German Art Space’s Inaugural Exhibition Transforms It into a Haunted Haus
The inaugural exhibition at Haus Mödrath Space for Art deals with the tensions shared among the mansion, its history, the landscape, and the home as a display space for art.
Art
The Untold Story of Rauschenberg’s Earliest Champion
Among the reigning patriarchs of the New York School, the young Rauschenberg found his greatest and earliest champion in the painter Jack Tworkov.
Art
The 65 Symbols on US Military Tombstones
While American military cemeteries may look uniform with their rows of cross-adorned tombs, look closer and you'll find Wiccan Pentacles, Atheist Atoms, and the Hammer of Thor.
Art
Required Reading
This week, South Korea's HighLine, the new Marciano Art Foundation in LA, gentrifying African art, chemtrail conspiracy theorists, peak latte, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Violin
"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."
Books
The Uncanny Body: Jennifer Firestone's Gates and Fields
At its center, the book offers the refusal to accept an already-formulated understanding of loss that lies at the heart of the experience of grief.
Books
Julio Cortázar's Literature Class
Circumscribing his goals and ambitions, Cortázar says that “in the present day, what matters is not to be a writer from Latin America but to be, above all, a Latin American writer.”
Art
Florine Stettheimer’s Vision of Equality
Stettheimer was born into a wealthy, financially secure Jewish family, and she never had to work. For some people, her wealth means that she did not suffer enough to be an artist, and therefore her work does not have enough gravity.
Art
Demolition Detail
The presence of a mattress and the trauma of displacement.
Art
The Future Is (Still) Female: Feminist Art for the 21st Century
The Future Is Female focuses primarily on the work of women artists who came of age after the Women’s Art Movement.
Music
Twelve Reasons Why the Chainsmokers Are Failing at Love
Such is the appeal of the blank slate.