Books
The Beat Artist Who Rescued Paper Planes from the Streets of NYC
Prolific 20th-century polymath Harry Smith picked up every paper airplane he saw on the streets of Manhattan from 1961 to 1983.
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Interactive Comic Commemorates the Tragic Story of the Vietnamese "Boat People"
For the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, artist Matt Huynh — the son of Vietnamese boat people — adapted the award-winning story "The Boat" into an interactive comic.
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Hundreds of Indian Artists Condemn Government Indifference to Far-Right Violence
NEW DELHI — On October 27 the Indian news site Scroll published a letter signed by over 300 artists that expresses support for the more than 40 writers who have returned their state awards over the past month as a form of protest against the increasingly intolerant environment in India for minoritie
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Priestesses at Play: Lynda Benglis at Storm King
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY — This year, among the di Suveros, the Serras, and other Modernist guardians, the autumn leaves adorn Lynda Benglis’s large works in cast metal and polyurethane.
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Remembering Architecture Through Fragments and Impressions
Buildings, in New York City especially, are so overwhelmingly big that they can sometimes seem to occupy our space and not the other way around.
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Robert Morris's Spectral Shrouds
Robert Morris has comported himself for decades as the least minimal of the original minimalists.
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The Art of Anxiety and Anticipation from the Backyards of Cold War Superpowers
As Cold War politics began to heat up along the peripheries of US and Soviet control, aesthetic preoccupations slowly started to give way to explicit engagement with the prevailing orders of power.
Comics
Things Artists Should Change
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An Archive of 10,000 Cylinder Recordings Readied for the Spotify Era
From cakewalks to carols, historic sounds of all kinds are preserved at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Cylinder Audio Archive.
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Good Art Comes in Small Packages at LA Gallery's Miniature Show
LOS ANGELES — The Mini Show presented stamp-sized paintings and sculptures, offering a unique vantage for experiencing new work.
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Digital Distractions: Tweeting as a Bird and the Awkwardness of AIM
For November's Digital Distractions, journey through Twitter as a rotund bird on a mission, relive the awkward AIM conversations of the early 2000s, and give a monster a makeover.
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Visions of Detroit’s Past and Future in Clay and Cardboard
DETROIT — Shannon Goff makes an excellent case for the secret interconnections between cardboard and clay, her two primary materials.