Art
A Photographer’s Multifaceted Scenes of Mexican Street Life
An exhibition at the Aperture Foundation gathers pictures taken by Alex Webb over more than 30 years, all across Mexico.
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Constructive and Creative Approaches to Talking About the Weather
The exhibition features 17 artists, whose wide-ranging works put the lie to prevailing notions that the weather is a soporific subject, that environmental issues cannot be made engaging.
Art
Envisioning Our Future States Through Crypto Currencies
An artist helps us understand how crypto currencies are creeping their way into our global economies.
In Brief
Crazed Hotelier Sets Art Dealer's Dogs on Fire [UPDATED]
"They must die!" boutique hotel mogul Vikram Chatwal allegedly screamed at Molly and Finn, the Jack Russell terriers of gallerist Sean Kelly, before pulling out an aerosol can and lighter and attempting to torch the poor pups.
Books
Japan's Islands of Monsters
Every year around September, mud-covered figures run amok in the streets of the Shimajiri District in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, smearing dirt on anyone they encounter.
Art
The Centennial of Centaur, a Modern Typeface that Revived a Classic Design
The Grolier Club celebrates a century of Bruce Rogers's Centaur type, the "noblest Roman of them all."
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Newark Arts' Open Doors Citywide Arts Festival Kicks Off October 19
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Seeing a Horror Movie Through the Reactions of Its Spectators
The best horror movie in New York City right now is Alex Prager’s La Grande Sortie, a 10-minute film playing on continuous loop at the Chrystie Street branch of Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
Comics
Bob Ross, I Feel Ya
And it's not just because I live in the Catskills …
Books
Inexplicable Found Photographs of Women in Trees
It all began at a flea market in Frankfurt, when photo collector Jochen Raiß came across a picture of a woman wearing a summer dress and high heels.
Art
A Child’s Guide to Squatting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
In E.L. Konigsburg's 1967 children's classic From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, siblings Claudia and James Kincaid run away from their cushy suburban home in Greenwich, Connecticut, and camp out at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Art
Revisiting an Art Collective’s Ephemeral Time Capsules
Somewhere in Artpark, the 108-acre state park in Lewiston, New York, is buried an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser covered in tar and filled with 30 suitcases packed with consumer goods such as cigarettes, condoms, and magazines from Reader's Digest to Playboy.