In Brief
An Animated Guide to the Bronze Age Technique of Lost-Wax Casting
Lost-wax casting, a sculpting technique dating to the Chalcolithic period, is an elaborate process.
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Art
The Surreality of Selling Sex
MANILA — The single focus of Filipino artist Manny Montelibano’s short film “Here, distorted” (2016), on view at 1335Mabini, is the lighted floor of a strip club in Bacolod, a city on the island of Negros where the artist lives and works.
Opinion
Gogh Big or Gogh Home: A Definitive Ranking of van Gogh Art Tributes
In mid-April, Berlin art duo Elmgreen and Dragset will erect a 4.5-ton vaguely ear-shaped swimming pool outside Rockefeller Center. Titled “Van Gogh’s Ear,” the absurd public sculpture is only the latest example of the van Gogh-mania sweeping the art world.
Art
Within Gallery Walls, an Artist Channels the Ghosts of Marginalized Women
LONDON — It’s hard to fit the afterlife within a white cube.
Announcement
New Exhibition at San Francisco Art Institute Draws Inspiration from Mayan Archeology and John Cage
Berlin-based artist Mariana Castillo Deball reveals gaps in the often unquestioned narratives of museology and archaeology in a new exhibition at San Francisco Art Institute’s (SFAI) Walter and McBean Galleries. [http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NTk0ODIsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozOTAyMDcsImNoI
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Scientists Can Now Store Digital Images in DNA
The amount of data in the digital universe — including vast collections of computer files, historic archives, movies, photo collections, and other digital information stored on devices worldwide — is expected to hit 44 trillion gigabytes by 2020.
News
University of Kansas Acquires 1,000 Zines from a Defunct Radical Library
The University of Kansas Libraries recently acquired over 1,000 zines from the former Solidarity radical organization in Lawrence, Kansas.
Art
Drinking Tea with Tom Sachs
I'm eating a single Ritz cracker, its underbelly embellished with a creamy wave of peanut butter.
Comics
The Normal Artist
I have pretty severe anxiety.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the brilliance of Gordon Parks, sculptor wasps, tourists and archeological sites, Bridget Riley on her art, bad art, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Wax
"Being kissed by a man who didn’t wax his mustache was — like eating an egg without salt."
Books
Reader's Diary: Daniel Hoffman's ‘Next to Last Words’
On its last day of existence — or, more particularly, on a day after its last day, when it reopened just for this purpose — the St. Mark’s Bookshop sold off all of its remaining stock at $2 a copy.