Art
MARRAKESH — Set outside the institutional white cube, in restored ancient sites and the ruins of a 16th-century palace, the sixth edition of the Marrakech Biennale, Not New Now, arrives like a breath of fresh air.
In Brief
The University of Southern California Libraries have digitized roughly 1,300 rare photographs of midcentury modernism in the American West, as documented by two of its insiders.
Art
The "Positron" (1976–77) by Latvian artist Valdis Celms operated a bit like a disco ball, flashing various colors of light as the goliath metal orb rotated.
Art
You need to spend half an hour looking at each of these photographs to gather all of what's happening inside it.
Art
Minimalist abstraction of the 20th century often feels placeless. Tony Smith's angular, inky sculptures could have crawled out of a dimension void of organic life; Mark Rothko's repeating black canvases in a Houston chapel reflected the space's lack of specific religion.
Books
Originally intended purely as tools for navigation, maps have long branched off from this practical function to become an unexpected medium for visual expression.
In Brief
In response to Austria giving migrants a red light, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson decided to create a “Green light,” a crystalline polyhedral LED light made from recycled materials.
Art
When Richard Pryor strode through an audience of fans and celebrities at the Hollywood Palladium on December 9, 1981, the comedian — always renowned for his candor and vulnerability — was exposed in an altogether new way.
Comics
It never ends.
Opinion
This week, archeology politics, critical thinking and painting, futurist terms, #terroristselfie, how people spend time online, and more.
Opinion
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand and there you are.
Books
Debt is the crux where economics and morality intersect.