In Brief
13,800-Year-Old Engraving May Be First Depiction of a Man-Made Landscape
Seven crude semicircles scratched into the surface of an ancient stone slab may not make much of an impression on modern-day viewers.
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In Brief
Museum Sues Wikimedia for Hosting Copyrighted Photos of Its Public-Domain Artworks
On October 28 the Reiss Engelhorn Museum (REM) in Mannheim, Germany, filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for making high-resolution images of public domain artworks from its collection available for download.
Announcement
Call for Applications: Roman J. Witt Residency at University of Michigan's Stamps School of Art & Design
The University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is accepting proposals for the 2016-2017 Roman J. Witt Residency Program through January 15, 2016.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NzU3MjksImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozMzYwNjksImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIjoxMjUwMjI3LCJkbSI6NCwiZ
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On Staten Island, an Artist Floats New Ideas for Life Jackets
Surfing along New York Harbor on the Staten Island Ferry, a fairly tranquil experience were it not for the tourists snapchatting the Statue of Liberty, can still cause a bit of anxiety.
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The Female Body Concealed and Revealed with Minimal Marks
CHICAGO — In a show of works on paper at a new Chicago artist-run space, Cultivator, painter Anne Harris depicts the female body in a way that brings to mind writer Christine Alic’s phrase “the contested landscape of the female gaze.”
Interview
Painting a Strangely Spiritual and Sexual Pleasure
Loie Hollowell’s current exhibition at 106 Green, an artist-run gallery in Greenpoint, offers up the results of many years of inquiry into female agency and sexual expression.
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ArtRx NYC
This week is a big one for poetry, with events celebrating John Ashbery, Claudia Rankine, and Ugly Duckling Presse. If that's not enough, try some openings.
Art
Documenting the Peculiarities of an Early-20th-Century Roman Department Store
There's one place you shouldn’t miss when visiting Rome. It's neither the Colosseum nor St. Peter’s Basilica.
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The 19th-Century Affordable Artworks That Were the Original Carnival Game Prizes
MEMPHIS — Chalkware was one of the earliest affordable arts available to a large population in the United States.
Art
Folded and Fragmented Drawings of the Natural World
WASHINGTON, DC — The everyday organisms of our natural world become mysterious and illusory in the drawings of Beverly Ress.
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A Deconstructed Hunting Cabin Filled with Fabricated Memories
LOS ANGELES — April Street’s solo exhibition Lay Down Your Arms, currently on view at the West Hollywood gallery Various Small Fires, is both visually engaging and spatially distinct.
Opinion
To the Man Suing the Met for “Aesthetic Whitewashing,” Here Are Some of the Museum's Non-Aryan Jesuses
One New Yorker is suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art for displaying fair-skinned and blonde-haired artworks of Jesus Christ, claiming that they are racist and made him suffer from emotional distress.