Art
A Modernist Houston Post Office Is Reborn as a Colossal Event Venue
With the Day for Night festival, the Barbara Jordan Post Office invites visitors to reconsider what the colossal concrete building could be for Houston.
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Art
A New Art and Design Initiative Will Confront the Sun Belt’s Urban Sprawl
Over the next four years, New Cities, Future Ruins plans on a series of intelligent and creative projects that will face the cultural and environmental realities of the Sun Belt.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: ISIS recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the release of two jailed Tehran gallerists, and an 18th-century Chinese seal sold for $22 million at auction — over 20 times its estimate.
Books
Creating an Atlas of Overlooked Cartography for New York City
Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's book Nonstop Metropolis charts the overlooked geographic history of New York City.
Art
Reboot with the Ancient Japanese Calendar of 72 Microseasons
Forget summer and spring; bring on the season of "The Bear Retreats to its Den."
Art
A Memorial Exhibition for Tony Feher, Who Found Art in the Unexpected
Five artist friends have curated a memorial exhibition of works by Tony Feher, who died in June at age 60, highlighting two unfinished bodies of work he was developing at the time of his death.
Art
Tripping Through James Ensor’s Macabre Painted World with Luc Tuymans
Tuymans steps up to the bar, and this feels like a kaleidoscopic tour of Ensor’s clearly voraciously imaginative brain.
News
Art Workers Organize a Fair for Political Action
This Saturday's Forward Union Fair intends to connect visitors with nonprofits and community groups, and to help people find ways to become politically active.
Art
How Artists and Scientists Have Contended with the Cosmos Across the Centuries
The Universe and Art at the Mori Art Museum explores, with science and art, how humanity has wrestled with its place in the cosmos throughout time.
Opinion
Should the Art World Strike on Inauguration Day?
Will the art world in the US close down on Inauguration Day? What will that mean? #J20
Art
Splicing Together Portraits of Countries' Leaders
The artist Guney Soykan's Face of a Nation series consists of striking and unusual timelines of countries' political leadership over the past half-century.
Art
An Audio Tour of the Museum of Modern Art’s Dust
Artist Nina Katchadourian spent two years exploring the dustiest realms of New York's Museum of Modern Art for a new audio tour.