Art
The 19th-Century Tomb That Inspired London’s Iconic Telephone Box
When you step into one of London's iconic red telephone boxes, you're entering the architecture of a tomb.
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Art
Czech Artists’ Radical Book Designs of the Early 20th Century
The founding of the Republic of Czechoslovakia in 1918 also led to a cultural renaissance in the region, with a desire to create a distinctive Czech culture spurring decades of artistic experimentation and creativity.
Art
Surreal Still Lifes of Objects and Their Memories
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — The concept of “improvisational painting” might evoke the idea of loose compositions with abstract shapes — Kandinsky-like squiggles and half-formed images, or a visual jazz of color and texture.
In Brief
A New App Visualizes the Radio Waves All Around Us
The modern world is awash in a sea of radio waves — currents of electromagnetic radiation upon which our digital lives depend. What if you could see this invisible dimension?
Art
Painting the Imagined Space Where East and West Harmonize
Salman Toor’s insular scenes of life in Pakistan have vanished.
Announcement
Artist Open Call: 'Postcard from a City,' Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland
The Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, Poland, is hosting an open call to invite one artist to take part in Postcard from a City, which is organized as part of the international "Heroes We Love.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTA3ODczLCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjbSI6MzM1MDcxLCJjaCI6MTkz
Interview
Why Are There So Few Black Full Professors of Art History in the US?
Steven Nelson, professor of art history at UCLA, and Director of the African Studies Center, recently tweeted that he is a member of a rare and exceptional group: one of six full professors in art history, who are black, in the United States.
Art
Jeremy Deller's Indelibly British Brand of Anti-Capitalist Pop
MEXICO CITY — Although presented as a series of discrete events across time, history is written every day through humanity’s incessant production of time-sensitive ephemera that define the aesthetics, sounds, and languages of our epoch.
Comics
An Artist's Obligatory "Affordable" Holiday Sale
The annual obligatory holiday Christmas "Affordable" end-of-season "fine craft" starving artist deck-the-walls art sale!
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, serious landscape painting, profiling the Met's Sheena Wagstaff, living in a Frank Lloyd Wright home, the first thing ever purchased on the internet, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Train
Today is the 100th birthday of Billy (“Take the A Train”) Strayhorn.
Performance
Performa 15: Rewarding Musical Turns, and Unused Real Estate
In the final phase of Performa 15, which ended on November 22, a couple of performances turned profitably to music, creating synergies with standardized hand gestures in one case and the dynamics of theater lighting in the other.