Books
Comics that Bend and Borrow from Reality
Sean Karemaker dispenses with the rigid panel grids and other conventions that most people commonly associate with comics for The Ghosts We Know from Conundrum Press.
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Figurative Painting That’s Emphatically Human
New York City galleries are raining down a smattering of group shows that showcase figurative painting.
Books
A History of Photography in Which the Camera Is Absent
A new book takes is a broader, global look at cameraless photography.
Art
A Camera That Only Shows You Photos Taken by Strangers
Some cameras will upload the photographs you snap directly to the internet; this one will do the opposite, filling its monitor with an image sourced from the web after you press its shutter.
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A Miniature Version of the Broad Museum Parodies the Art World
LOS ANGELES — Scott Marvel Cassidy’s art makes viewers do a double take.
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Conservators Reverse-Engineer the First Noncommercial 35mm Film Strip
Using salvaged machines and a hand-cranked camera, conservators at the George Eastman Museum created the first strip of 35mm motion-picture film not produced by a commercial company.
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Two Shows that Expose the Unseen Infrastructure Around Us
The two exhibitions currently on view at the Swiss Institute examine the usually hidden infrastructure of architecture, and their consideration of space makes them particularly fitting: they are the gallery's final shows before it moves from its current building on Wooster Street to a yet-to-be dete
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, Agnes Martin's only film screens at 356 Mission, a show of paintings by Warhol superstar Mary Waronov opens, REDCAT kicks off its New Original Works Festival, and more.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a drunken Brexit supporter attacked an artwork featuring a hijab, a specialist disappeared with the possible da Vinci drawing he was asked to authenticate, and thieves who stole stones from a historic battlefield came down with the Gettysburg curse.
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During the RNC, Two Art Projects Amplify the Voices of Ohio’s Citizens
CLEVELAND — Every television ad is for a presidential candidate, the phone rings off the hook with endless robocalls, and people from all over the country knock on the door to make sure I know where to vote.
Art
A Cherokee Fashion Designer Who Mixed Native Modernism with Midcentury Trends
SANTA FE, NM — The worlds of fashion and fine art often collide, both in the museum and on the runway.
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Photographing the Forgotten Vietnamese Widows of Japanese WWII Soldiers
When we talk about Japan and Vietnam in the 1940s, we discuss World War II, invasions, colonialism, and other monumental events that unfolded in this part of the world, but sent ripples across the globe.