Art
Remembering Little Syria, a Forgotten Manhattan Neighborhood
From the 1880s to 1940s, a community of mostly Arab Americans thrived in a Lower Manhattan neighborhood that would later be the site of the World Trade Center.
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Performance
24 Hours of Greek Tragedy and Dionysian Debauchery
Jan Fabre's Mount Olympus stitches together more than a dozen classical Greek plays and is unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed.
Comics
Stress Eating Your Way Through the Presidential Debate
What's your food of choice?
Art
Lost in an Art Historian’s Annals of 1960s–70s NYC
To enter Douglas Crimp’s exhibition at Galerie Buchholz is to enter a state of overwhelm.
Performance
A Play on the Usual Underground Railroad Story
In the play Underground Railroad Game, currently at Ars Nova, there is no clear North and South on the compass of racialized human desire.
Announcement
VCUarts Department of Sculpture + Extended Media Announces New Faculty: Irvin Morazan and Massa Lemu
Morazan and Lemu join VCUarts Sculpture + Extended Media faculty members Corin Hewitt, Michael Jones McKean, Kendall Buster, Carlton Newton and Matt King.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MjEyMTIsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjo0ODk3MDcsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIjoxNzQwOTI5LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjIwNjY
Opinion
The Potency of a Kitschy Picabia Nude
The artist’s “Nu de Do” makes a blue-chip, cock-rock show at Gagosian Gallery worthwhile.
Art
Paying Tribute to Lillian Schwartz, a Computer Art Pioneer
Although Schwartz has been producing computer art since the '60s, she's only now receiving her first solo exhibition in New York.
Film
An Animated Glimpse of Hokusai's Life Through His Daughter's Eyes
A new animated biopic offers insight into the career and work of Hokusai through the life of his daughter, a fellow artist in Edo-era Japan.
News
Researchers Restore First Recording of Computer Music, Made in Alan Turing’s Lab
The 1951 recording of three songs played on Turing's computer has been restored to its intended sound.
Art
Considering the Environmental Damage Done by Art Fairs
Built with the collected detritus of art fairs, The Fair Housing Project illustrates just how much good material is thrown away once the tents fall.
Art
An Interactive Story That Prompts You to Speak an Endangered Aboriginal Language
Only three fluent speakers of Marra remain. 'My Grandmother's Lingo' is an interactive animation that asks users to speak words from this endangered Aboriginal language.