Art

Performing Slanderous and Sweet Words Said About Women

On Wednesday evening at the FLAG Art Foundation, men and women — though mostly women — gathered to read from a list of 1,000 words and phrases characterizing women.

Art

An Artist Navigates the Capitalist Code of Global Shipping

Art history is full of seascapes depicting the ocean as either a thoroughly charted territory over which nations fight and do trade, or an unknowable force that is forever beyond human control.

Art

The Catastrophic Inbreeding of the Habsburgs as Digital Degradation

When digitally editing an image, quests for improvement can cause more damage than good, whether saving a JPG so much that it distorts through compression or sharpening the photo until it pixelates.

News

Art Movements

This week in art news: the Syrian army moved closer to retaking the ancient city of Palmyra, Cuban artists and dissidents were detained in anticipation of President Obama's visit, and Moscow's Shukhov Tower was added to a watch list of at-risk cultural heritage sites.

News

Artist Invites Havana Locals into His Studio for Free High-Speed Wifi

Artist Alexis Leiva Machado, who works under the pseudonym Kcho, has partnered with Google to bring high-speed wifi to the Cuban public at rates nearly 70 times faster than services currently available — and at no cost to users.

In Brief

Artist Renders '2001: A Space Odyssey' into 569 GIFs To Test Fair Use Boundaries

To create 2001: A GIF Odyssey, digital producer and copywriter Jean-Baptiste Henri Franck Cyrille Marie Le Divelec, who goes by JB, cut the two hour and 41-minute long saga into 569 animated GIFs.

In Brief

The Artist Who Moved a Detroit House to Europe Left a Mess Behind [UPDATED]

Last month, Berlin-based Ryan Mendoza pissed off a lot of people when he tore down an abandoned house in Detroit and shipped the structure off for display at this year's Art Rotterdam.

Art

The Webcam of an 18th-Century Philosopher's Skeleton

LONDON — Presiding over a busy University College London corridor is a man who's been dead for over 180 years.

Art

Mechanized Art that Makes a Mop Talk and a Medicine Cabinet Tell Time

Even a plank of wood has kinetic possibilities in the art of Tim Hawkinson.

Art

A Bowling Alley Transforms into a 20,000-Square-Foot Trippy Art Experience

SANTA FE — Inside an old bowling alley here, in an industrial district a few miles south of the well-trodden, gallery-lined Canyon Road, there is a house.

Art

A Multisensory Trip to Cuba's Dark, Sugar-Filled Past

SALEM, Mass. — When Europeans first tasted sugar during the Crusades, they immediately begged for more.

Comics

Defining Terms

This is queer performance.