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.

In Brief

Artist Traffics in Road Signs that Land Him in a Jam

Franck Allais drew controversy for installing a yield sign with the silhouette of a Hasidic man in an ultra-Orthodox London neighborhood.

Books

Barron Trump Turned into a Beautiful Manga Boy

In the first episode, Barron team up with Sasha and Malia Obama to investigate a “mysterious anomaly” brought about by the rise of the 45th president.

Announcement

An Evening with Werner Herzog at Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute’s Film/Video Department and School of Art invite you to a conversation between legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog and film and media curator Sally Berger.

Art

Brutalism and Traditional Khmer Design Come Together in Phnom Penh's Hiroshima House

Osamu Ishiyama's structure exemplifies the surprising adaptability of humans in the face of dehumanizing events.

In Brief

Trump Budget Calls for End to National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities [UPDATED]

The president's budget proposal for 2018 would do away with the two funding agencies and ramp up military spending by $54 billion.

News

Artist Zwelethu Mthethwa Convicted of Murder [UPDATED]

The artist, who has been on trial for the murder of a sex worker named Nokuphila Kumalo for nearly four years, will be sentenced on March 29.

Interview

“Documentary Reporting Has Become So Rigid”: Adam Curtis on Storytelling Today

The journalist and documentary filmmaker discusses his recent film HyperNormalisation and past projects, as well as his plans to make a documentary on the West's relationship with Russia.

Art

Living in Raymond Pettibon’s America

We seem to finally be catching up to what the artist has been saying through his work all along — that things are bad, and they always have been.

Comics

Tips for Watercolor at -25 Degrees

A not-exactly how-to guide.

Books

The Modernist Flourishes of Aging Postwar Architecture

Extra Normal features Serge Fruehauf's photographs from two decades documenting the strange and surreal details of postwar architecture in Europe.