Books
The Strange Allure of Craigslist Mirrors
Everyone knows Craigslist is rife with the weird and the wild, but since 2013, Brooklyn-based artist Eric Oglander has been combing the online marketplace for one quotidian object: the mirror.
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Art
The 18th-Century Anatomist Who Celebrated Life with Dioramas of Death
Like his anatomist peers, 18th-century Dutch scientist Frederik Ruysch preserved human and animal specimens for study, either dried or in jars.
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New Online Museum Gathers All of Prince’s Websites in 1 Place
What if, instead of being a hellhole filled with trolls and bad news, the internet offered "the definitive place of gathering 4 all who love life, love God, lovesexy ... a new collective mindstate of unity, love and truth so great every human will want 2 join?"
Art
Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Rebooted as an 8-Bit Music Video
Since John Milton’s Paradise Lost was first published in 1667, many artists have attempted to visualize the biblical epic.
Books
A Photographer's Two-Year Journey to Document Sacred Cows
There's a beauty in the bovine's domesticated body that inspired Daniel Naudé to spend two years taking portraits of cows.
Art
From a Missing Woman to an Overpowering Odor, Adventures from London's First Art Night
LONDON — “Have you seen Betty? She has big boobs! She has disappeared!”
Opinion
"A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday" Flag Goes Up in New York City
This week, we've witnessed another onslaught of senseless killings of Black people by police in the United States.
Art
The Prolific Output of a Chronicler of Chicano Lives and Struggles
LOS ANGELES — As I arrived recently at the Fowler Museum, I made a beeline toward the José Montoya exhibition, rushing past a beautifully situated cloister and a series of photographs recording the efforts of the Legalize LA labor activist campaign.
Comics
Here We Are Again
Today.
Art
In Terence Koh’s Bee Chapel, Confronting Loss Through a Vanishing Species
Transforming seven rooms at Andrew Edlin Galley, terence koh: bee chapel perplexes from its start.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Sydney University art students clashed with police during protests, a Manhattan intersection was temporarily renamed in honor of the late street style photographer Bill Cunningham, and Maurizio Cattelan unveiled his "Spaghetti Car."
Art
Splendid-Necked Dung Beetles Like You've Never Seen Them Before
Maybe you've never seen a splendid-necked dung beetle before. But even if you have, odds are, you've never seen one like this before.