Books
The Long Shadow of Artificial Darkness on Modern Culture
The emergence of artificial darkness in the 19th century, from the darkroom to the theater, radically influenced our experiences with art.
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Art
A One-of-a-Kind Room Fragrancer from Medieval Europe Finally Gets Its Due
The Cleveland Museum of Art's ornate table fountain, a 14th-century hydraulic automata, is the focus of a new exhibition on the popular medieval decorative objects.
Books
Facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript Now Available to Citizen Cryptographers
Yale University released a book that recreates through photographs the enigmatic medieval Voynich Manuscript in its full form.
In Brief
Ancient Tableau of Boats Found in Egypt
Archeologists have recently discovered 120 drawings of boats in an Ancient Egyptian tomb that would've once housed a 65-foot-long vessel.
Art
Searching for a Shaman in a Hand-Painted Video Game
Teku Studios spent four years hand-painting a watercolor world for their game Candle, in which players decode puzzles through clues embedded in the art.
Art
Irish Artists Fight to Repeal Their Country's Abortion Ban
Artists in Ireland are using diverse tactics to broadcast the message of the pro-choice movement, despite efforts to silence them.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Giorgio Vasari's "Last Supper" was reinstalled 50 years after being damaged by flooding, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned a white nationalist conference that took place nearby, and David Hockney was commissioned to create a stained glass window for Westminster Abbey.
Art
A Chinese Museum Invites Artists to Respond to the Local Landscape
"Mountain Sites" is a merry chase of an exhibition that remains tuned in to the presence and the (often anachronistic) contemporaneity of its locality.
Art
The Loneliness of a Digitally Manipulated Boxing Match
Encountering a boxing match projected on the wall of a darkened room is pretty unlikely while roaming around Chelsea galleries — unless you’re at a Paul Pfeiffer show.
Art
Divination, Geomancy, and the Supernatural in Islamic Art
Over 100 rare objects from the 12th to 20th centuries are used to explore the role of the supernatural in Islamic art at the Ashmoleon Museum in Oxford.
Art
Unpacking Trauma by Examining the Bullet that Caused It
The video essay is Vanessa Gravenor’s attempt to make sense of her trauma, which remains serpentine, meandrous, never subsiding, ever present.
Art
A Small Celebration of One of the Kiowa Six’s Most Prolific Painters
Four paintings by Stephen Mopope, discovered a few years ago at Brown University, are on view for the first time.