Art
A More Accessible and Eclectic Future for Virtual Reality
This year’s Versions conference mostly encouraged a more sober, productive, and critical probing of the cultural landscape of virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality.
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Art
When Dissection Was a Criminal Punishment Worse Than Death
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse is an online exhibition that unearths the macabre history of anatomy and criminal punishment.
News
Trump's Travel Ban Ensnares Artists and Authors
In the weeks since President Trump's initial travel ban was put into effect and blocked, artists and writers entering the US have faced strenuous scrutiny from Customs and Border Patrol.
Art
Three Powerfully Political Shows Open at the California African American Museum
The California African American Museum kicks off its exhibition cycle this Wednesday with shows about the 1992 LA Uprising and historical disappearance of African-American women.
Art
Wikipedia Art and Feminism Editing Sessions Around NYC
Art+Feminism takes over New York City with six Wikipedia edit-a-thons over the next week and a half, including the biggest one at MoMA on March 11.
News
Crowdfunding Campaign Aims to Bring Rare Photo of Harriet Tubman Home
A previously unrecorded photograph of the trailblazing abolitionist is going to auction later this month, and the Harriet Tubman Home historic site hopes to be the top bidder.
Books
A French Surrealist's Eclectic Remembrances of His Cohort, Finally in English
Phillipe Soupault delights in humanizing the celebrated with intimate particularization and paeanizing the obscure with encomium.
Art
An Artist Teaches Us How to Breathe Under Duress
Last month, I participated in Shaun Leonardo’s "I Can't Breathe," a public, participatory workshop and performance that takes the form of a self-defense class.
Art
When English Arts and Crafts Met Japanese Woodblock Prints
The William Morris Gallery in London recalls the printmaking collaboration between Yoshijiro Urushibara and Frank Brangwyn in the 1920s.
Interview
Goodbye to All That: Why Do Artists Reject the Art World?
Martin Herbert’s latest book is a collection of essays about 10 artists who play with the system, struggle against it, or walk away altogether.
Art
A New Vancouver Triennial Contends with Making Art in a Gentrified City
The ability of the Vancouver Art Gallery to maintain its commitment to local artists will be the true test of the triennial’s success.
Art
Rapt by Strangely Lit and Shadowed Paintings
Jordan Kasey's painted figures, lit with mysterious, colored light, have the monumentality of Picasso’s Neo-classical period and are as ponderous as whales gliding through the ocean.