Art
This week, assuming we all survive the election — the results of which you could watch while Martha Rosler VJs at White Box on Tuesday night — attend a progressive museology symposium, take a tour of tombstone portraits, learn about the souring political situation in Turkey, and more.
Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art examines the emergence of 19th-century Shaker minimalism, and its influence on American Modernism.
In Brief
Has Kruger become a one-trick pony? Is her graphic design art divine? We thought we'd ask.
Books
Cartoonist Bob Eckstein illustrated 75 of the world's most beautiful, strange, and beloved local bookstores, many of which are in danger of closing.
News
Joan Miró painted many murals in his lifetime, but he designed only one made of glass and marble, for Wichita State University’s Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art. “Personnages Oiseaux,” or “Bird People,” was commissioned by the museum’s founding director Martin H. Bush. It adorned the building’s
Art
Over four years, Oliver Curtis traveled to the world’s most-photographed tourist sites, from the Parthenon to the Hollywood sign, and took pictures while facing the “wrong way.”
News
It's totally chill if male Trump trolls bathe in pig's blood, but not if a female candidate's associate wants to attend a #SpiritCooking event.
Art
Caroles Amorales essentially infiltrated a newspaper by writing subversive articles that simulated the style and format of an average story or puff piece, without raising any red flags regarding censorship.
Art
Two video installations currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago place the viewer within images and their history, and demand we look at them differently.
Art
Assigning value to a cheap, everyday thing that a famous person happened to use can be explained in part by what psychologists call the “law of magical contagion.”
Art
Across the city, many works by the 55 artists participating in the 2016 Biennale de Montréal deal with the possibilities, limitations, and consequences of spectacle and spectatorship.
Comics
The life of an artist is always more complicated.