Art
Excavating the Forgotten History of Palmyra
Palmyra is routinely presented as a city of ruins that had been left to decay naturally for 1700 years, until ISIS came. In fact, the ancient site was continuously inhabited until the early 1930s.
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The Most Beautiful Subway Station in the World: NYC Pays Tribute to Prince
Travelers through the Prince Street subway station in Manhattan yesterday may have looked twice at its signage that was temporarily transformed into a memorial for the late Prince.
Comics
Lovesexy, or What Else Could I Do?
On the contrary!
Art
In a Game Based on the Failing US School System, Leave No Pineapple Behind
No Pineapple Left Behind, from Subaltern Games, turns the controversial 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, which connected federal funding in American public schools to standardized test scores, into a bleak management game.
Art
Could a Survey of American Indian Art Tell the Human Stories Behind Beautiful Objects?
TOLEDO — Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection presents a conundrum of conscience.
Art
Talismanic Calligraphy Made Contemporary in Marrakech
Unlike many of Koraïchi’s contemporaries, who seek to abstract calligraphic forms, he not only nods at tradition, but, as an artist of Sufi lineage himself, he inscribes his work within it.
Art
An Interactive Map of a Midcentury Botanist’s Amazonian Trips
Richard Evans Schultes took peyote with the Kiowa in Oklahoma in the 1930s, was the first scientist invited to a hallucinogenic yagé ceremony in the Amazon's Sibundoy Valley in the 1940s, and inadvertently helped launch the psychedelic era of the 1960s.
Art
An Art Collective Takes Over a Portuguese Palace and Retells Its History
LISBON — Since 2008, the Lisbon-based art and architecture collective Os Espacialistas has been developing site-specific interventions that introduce new perspectives to public spaces and reconsider the politics they embody.
Books
A Photographic Survey of Africa's Enduring Masquerade Traditions
From initiation rites to harvest festivals, many traditional African rituals require participants to don masks and elaborate costumes that transform their wearers into spirits, beasts, or ancestral beings.
Art
What Imperfect Sketches of Bicycles Tell Us About Our Memories
Seven years ago, Bologna-based designer Gianluca Gimini started approaching friends and strangers with an odd request.
News
France Lost Track of 23,000 State-Owned Artworks and Historic Objects
Nearly 23,000 works of state-owned art are missing in France and its overseas territories, lost over time from museums, town halls, and major institutions largely due to poor documentation and even theft.
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Treatment of Adjuncts Spurs Protests at Pacific Northwest College of Art
Students and teachers at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, protested on campus this week, demanding that adjunct professors be rehired with contracts after some of the college's most influential educators were unceremoniously left out of next semester's class schedule.