Art
Guggenheim Ventures into the Future with Its Own Cryptocurrency
The Guggenheim’s latest online exhibition is an indulgent science fiction that brings the future to the present.
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An Artist Photographs His Depression to Destigmatize Mental Illness
JOHANNESBURG — “Those are white people problems” is often the response to mental illness in black communities across the globe. South African photographer Tsoku Maela hopes to change that.
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A Visual Search Engine for the Aerial Patterns of Cities
Thanks to a small team of artists and coders, you may now explore cities through patterns of infrastructure as captured in aerial photography.
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Lucian Freud’s Unseen Self-Portrait and Sketchbooks Go on View
“Truth heads into naked people bodies bodies whole complete living naked women avoid facial expression make bodies expressive of feeling,” scribbled painter Lucian Freud in one of the sketchbooks now on display at London's National Portrait Gallery.
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A Roving Typewriter Records the Subconscious of New York City
Inside a wooden shack installed at North 12th Street and Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg's McCarren Park, anyone can sit down at a typewriter and contribute to a collaborative poem unfolding over a 100-foot paper scroll.
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Selling Insecticide with a Triptych Collage of 60,000 Dead Roaches
Pro tip for starving artists: The next time cockroaches infest your apartment, ask the exterminator to leave behind a few thousand dead bugs for you to turn into a massive collage.
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In Rome, a Worrying Trend as Alternative Spaces Go Silent
ROME — Following the election of Rome’s first female mayor — Virginia Raggi of the populist Five Star Movement, who won a massive 67.2% in the second ballot — the city awaits solutions to the neglect which has led to overgrown parks, rubbish on the streets, large-scale homelessness of the city’s imm
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an abducted alien sculpture was recovered, a recovering meth addict returned a stolen Thomas Kinkade sculpture, and wild Winnipeggers smashed a public art installation.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, local chef Vinny Dotolo curates a show about the cross-section of food and art, a retrospective of work by Light and Space artist Peter Alexander opens at Parrasch Heijnen, Pieterspace and pehrspace hold a festival dedicated to influential musician Arthur Russell, and more.
Art
The Art of Drinking with a Friend
The first thing I did, after entering the gallery and introducing myself to the gallerist, was ask to use the bathroom.
Books
On the Origin of Emoji
A new book published by Prestel explores the history of emoji and its rise as a global communication phenomenon.
Art
From Stitched Symbols to Painted Shadows, Connecting Two Artists’ Surreal Sensibilities
Two multicolored rocks, placed side by side, cast long shadows that lie flat before bending at the walls they intersect, as shadows typically do. But that’s all that’s typical.