Art
An Artist’s Fantastical Dioramas Fill a Tiny Store Along the Hudson
KINGSTON, New York — Walking on John Street in Kingston on a rainy Saturday night my eye was caught by the oddest storefront on the block.
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Art
Encyclopedias Transformed into Dazzling, Dada-Inspired Sculptures
The title of artist Brian Dettmer's Dodo Data Dada, showing at PPOW, sounds like cute alliterative nonsense until you realize it's a clever description of the work on view: Sculptures made of old encyclopedias, a medium nearing extinction, with their pages of data carved into intricate photomontages
Art
The Rise and Fall of the East Village Lenin Statue
When I first started hanging out in the East Village in the mid-1970s, it was loaded with unofficial monuments to an older Lower East Side: Boarded up Yiddish theaters and a largely unused bocce ball court on Houston Street were reminders of the days when an immigrant community flourished.
News
Anti-BP Protesters Release Pirates, Merpeople, and the Kraken at the British Museum
LONDON — The irony of oil company BP sponsoring the British Museum’s current exhibition Sunken Cities will have been lost on few.
Art
The Grisly and Heroic Propaganda of the Doomed Franklin Expedition
This month, the infamously ill-fated Franklin Expedition returned to the headlines with the discovery of the missing HMS Terror.
Art
Analyzing 50 Years of American Political Advertising
I Approve This Message: Decoding Political Ads is dedicated to the granular dissection of the visual semiotics and rhetorical stylings of political advertising.
Announcement
Artspace New Haven's 19th Annual City-Wide Open Studios Kicks Off October 7
Game On!, Artspace New Haven, Connecticut's citywide festival of open studios and commissioned projects will take place during weekends throughout October 7 – November 10, 2016.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTU0MTc5LCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjbSI6NDg3NjI3LCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY2siOnt9LCJjciI6MTY4OTUx
Art
When Mark Rothko and Clark Gable Shared a Stage
PORTLAND, Oregon — Mark Rothko was born 113 years ago on September 25, 1903.
Comics
My "Art Career"
Recently, I came across an old scrap of paper smeared in ink and paint that said...
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the Facebook near-billionaire secretly funding Trump’s meme machine, Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Black American history, pocket politics, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Lane
"The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Henri Lefebvre's ‘Critique of Everyday Life’ (Continued)
“Information is increasing while direct contacts are in decline. Relations are becoming more numerous while their intensity and authenticity are diminishing,” wrote Henri Lefebvre in 1961, and by 1981 he understood that this would entail “a solitude all the more profound for being overwhelmed by mes