Art
Paintings that Ridicule and Lampoon All-Powerful Men
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Men are dogs, but their shit grows into trees and their urine forms the sun as they defecate themselves in Tala Madani's oil paintings.
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Art
Saving a 220-Year-Old Eagle, the Oldest Military Sculpture in the US
One of the oldest locally-carved sculptures in New York City has weathered two centuries out on Governors Island in the New York Harbor.
Opinion
Looking for Love on Wydr, the "Tinder for Buying Art"
I wasn’t looking for a real relationship with a work of art.
In Brief
Air Conditioner Outage Shuts Down Brooklyn Museum for the Weekend
It appears this week's summer heat in New York has impacted the art world, as the Brooklyn Museum just announced it will be closed this weekend because of an "air-conditioning outage."
Books
A Comics Report on the Horrors of the Global Garment Industry
A heavily footnoted, absolutely depressing but crucial comics series reported by award-winning writer Anne Elizabeth Moore and drawn by artist collective Ladydrawers explores how our apparel purchases affect its majority-women workforce.
Art
Remembering Curator Neery Melkonian, Champion of Diasporic Politics and Aesthetics
In September of 2009, Neery Melkonian and I went on a ghost chase.
Interview
On Photographing Drag Queens in Their Wonderland
Growing up in London, photographer Magnus Hastings was an "all-singing, all-dancing child," as he puts it, who loved to wear his sister's clothes.
In Brief
UK Unveils Its First Public Statue of a Historic Black Woman
Last Thursday, a monumental statue of Mary Seacole was unveiled in London.
Art
3D-Rendered Visions of Dystopia, Inspired by the Housing Market Crash
PHILADELPHIA — Up the stairs on the second floor of Locks Gallery, you’ll find an exhibition of landscapes. These aren’t the boring, pastoral, plein air landscapes you’ll find for sale in droves up the street in Old City.
Art
The Curious Fates of Famous Artists’ Pets
There’s a whole history of woe for the pets of famous artists, especially when the creative types decided no ordinary cat or dog would do.
Comics
When Your Phone Goes Swimming
Find something to stare at all day.
Art
Wind Turbines Sustain an Aquatic Garden on a Whitney Museum Terrace
Three circular pools are flourishing with aquatic plants on the fifth-floor terrace of the Whitney Museum of American Art, part of Virginia Overton's exhibition Sculpture Gardens.