Books
The Sculptor Who Made Masks for Soldiers Disfigured in World War I
Any enduring romanticism for war was obliterated by the industrialized brutality of World War I, from which legions of soldiers returned disfigured by facial injuries.
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Art
Tate Uses AI to Match Old British Art to New Photojournalism
Art history repeats itself in contemporary photojournalism.
Books
The Mystery of the Three Hares Motif
An enigmatic trio of rabbits running in a circle appears on centuries of art, from medieval churches in England to Buddhist caves in China.
Art
Six Decades of Images Trace the Spectacle of American Politics
SOUTHAMPTON, NY — It’s an unusual election year, one in which the two front-running presidential candidates have both been in the public eye for more than three decades.
Books
A Fictive Psychoanalytic Society Set in 1930s Coney Island
At the raucous Insanitarium with Blowhole Theater, part of early 20th-century Coney Island’s Pavilion of Fun, clowns and dwarfs poked patrons with cattle prods, pushing women over jets of hot air so their skirts blew upward as onlookers gawked.
Art
Etel Adnan’s Vibrant, Visual Poems
LONDON — “Colorists are epic poets,” said Charles Baudelaire, and here at the Serpentine Gallery we have both: a painter of abstract landscapes and a poet, not to mention activist, scribe, and filmmaker.
News
Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline May Have Bulldozed Indigenous History
Last Friday, Tim Mentz, Sr., former Standing Rock Sioux tribal historic preservation officer, filed a declaration with the US district court detailing archaeological sites, including graves, alongside the planned pathway of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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'Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source' Opens at the Neuberger Museum of Art
Work by nine internationally renowned artists who use the urban landscape as inspiration will be on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art in the multi-media group show Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source, opening September 11, 2016.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6Nzc3NzAsImF0IjoyMC
Film
The Crude and Chaotic Art of “Strata-Cut” Claymation
David Daniels’s animation is explosive.
Comics
Affirmations for the Artist in Your Life
"You're so talented, I bet you'll become famous posthumously."
News
The West's Empty Fetish for Ruins
Bloomington, IN. — If you live in Indianapolis and have a family, you’re probably familiar with Holliday Park, located among the elaborate homes of a wealthy north side neighborhood of the city.
Art
The Divine Messages of a Victorian Spiritualist’s Drawings
LONDON — Frenetic spirals of color and swirling sinuous lines characterize the disembodied ink and watercolor works by Georgiana Houghton, currently on show at the Courtauld Gallery.