Art
A Pilgrimage to Beast Jesus
Cecilia Giménez Zueco's botched restoration of a small fresco in Spain looks as entrancingly bad in person as it does in pictures.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, New York City welcomes two comics festival, two print fairs, one internet flea market, and more.
News
On Anniversary of the Patriot Act, Artist Passes Out Pocket Knives at the Airport
Last week, performance artist Michele Pred handed out small pocket knives passengers arriving at San Francisco's International Airport to replace those that have been confiscated since the passage of the Patriot Act 15 years ago.
Art
Revisiting America’s Dead in Posthumous Portraits from the 19th Century
The 19th century saw the rise of the posthumous portrait when, through photographs and paintings, people preserved the faces of departed loved ones.
Performance
In a New Staging of the Tale of William Tell, the Only Flaw Is the Audience
Musically and visually, the Metropolitan Opera’s first staging of Gioachino Rossini's Guillaume Tell in over 80 years is a tremendous success.
Books
Death by Wallpaper: The Alluring Arsenic Colors that Poisoned the Victorian Age
Lucinda Hawksley's book Bitten by Witch Fever chronicles the rise of poisonous pigments in the 19th century through the burgeoning British wallpaper trade.
News
6.6-Magnitude Earthquake in Central Italy Destroys Historic Buildings
On Sunday morning, central Italy was hit by the country's most violent earthquake since 1980.
Announcement
'Feminism Is Politics!' at Pratt Manhattan Gallery Explores the "New Feminism"
Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents Feminism Is Politics!, an exhibition-inquiry into what is conceptualized by feminists and queer/lesbians in the 21st century as New Feminism.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NzMwNDEsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjo0OTYxOTAsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIjoxNzUyMjcyLCJ
Art
Confronting the Contradictions of Our Tech-Obsessed Culture
In her solo exhibition at Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel, Addie Wagenknecht boils down the experiences of postinternet life and then alchemizes them.
Art
A Lost 15th-Century Mural that Depicted Death's Indiscriminate Dance
In 1942, an Allied bombing in Lübeck, Germany, destroyed a famous 15th-century dance of death mural by artist Bernt Notke.
Art
A Caribbean Cultural Center Finds a Permanent Home in Harlem
The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute just reopened in a landmark building that was once a firehouse at 120 East 125th Street, right in between the atria and ventricles at the heart of East Harlem.
Comics
Highlights of My Life as an MFA Student in Vermont
A too-cool-for-school LA artist made a French château out of cake!