Art
Preserving the Stories Behind Painstakingly Compiled Collections
To most people, fossilized candy, hairballs, and animal bones belong in the trash, but for Yuji Agematsu, such detritus deserves preservation for posterity.
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Comics
The Story of Charles Darwin’s Artist
Some of the most iconic illustrations of Darwin's Theory of Evolution are the Galapagos Finches.
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An Overgrown Naval Cemetery Is Reborn as a Park
The curving boardwalk of the new park at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is respectfully raised above the earth where the remains of unknown sailors may still be interred.
In Brief
A Maya Codex Found in a Cave Is Authentic, Researchers Say
In the 1960s, looters searching a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, came across a rare, ancient codex rich with illustrations of weapon-wielding deities.
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Longing for Keith Haring’s Lighthearted Penises
It may seem unusual to uphold a book of penis drawings as a significant art-historical moment, but Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks creates an unignorable link between Haring’s early work and his homosexuality.
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Choosing Between a Folk Artist’s Story and His Work
Ronald Lockett believed in magic. So said sculptor Kevin Sampson during a talk in July at the American Folk Art Museum.
Performance
An Operatic Lament for the Lonely Artist
"When we meet the very best, we have to give up," baritone Rod Gilfry intoned in The Loser, composer David Lang's one-act opera that debuted last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, the Hammer Museum launches 100 days of film and performance, The Box opens a career-spanning show of work by legendary feminist artist Barbara T. Smith, Mexico City-based artist Abraham Cruzvillegas brings cars and cacti to Regen Projects, and more.
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Totemic Tributes to the Obscured History of a Detroit Neighborhood
DETROIT — The history of the former municipality of Fairview is written in its streets.
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An Unlikely East-West Collaboration in 1830s Portraits of Tumor Patients
Guangzhou, then called Canton by Westerners, was the only Chinese port open to foreign trading until the Opium Wars of the 19th century, and it became a rare hub of direct interactions between the two cultures. One of these resulted in a surprisingly moving series of paintings portraying bodies disf
Announcement
The Art Students League of New York Offers New Classes, Continues Tradition of Supporting Artists
Artists who have studied and taught at the Art Students League have set the course of American art for more than 140 years. This fall, 20 new League classes range from a series of anatomy lectures to lively “Art Workouts” exploring perception and imagination.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MT
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Artists Crank Up the Transcendent Power of Music
What is a DJ? Maybe you can get to an answer by understanding where the DJ is — that pivot point, that hub around which we as dancers oscillate, in the orbit of the music the DJ arranges and organizes.