Art
Nature in an Acid Bath: Early Color Films of National Park Vistas
In the 1930s the National Park Service created silent films, hand-tinted and toned with vibrant color, to promote outdoor oases to American travelers.
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Art
A Brooklyn Art Collective Builds Boats in Boston
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Before you even enter the building, there are boats.
Interview
Finally, an Exhibition Devoted to the Women of Abstract Expressionism
The paradigm of the "overlooked female artist" is both a cliché and a truth.
In Brief
French Court Tosses 'Guggenheim vs. Guggenheim' Lawsuit
On Wednesday, a court dismissed the fourth attempt of several French descendants of Peggy Guggenheim to gain greater control of the deceased art patron's collection, housed in Venice and managed by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York.
Art
Encounters with Art on Lawns, Porches, and Facades
CHICAGO — Finding its way onto porches, birdhouses, and neighborhood lemonade stands, the Terrain Biennial is currently installed in various domestic locations around Chicago and the world, inviting the public to take a bike or carpool to check out outdoor works by over 75 artists.
Interview
A Dance Pairs Jean Genet and Lady Gaga
Choreographer and writer Jack Ferver’s new collaboration with artist Marc Swanson, Chambre, begins with Ferver, scantily-clad in a gold, chained bodysuit and dark sunglasses, ranting about a former employee who had the audacity to use “my YSL discount without my permission.”
Announcement
Visit the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Open-House Tours on October 3 and 17
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Books
Math and Madness in a 1960s 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' Illustrated by Dalí
In 1969, the Maecenas Press imprint of Random House published 2,700 copies of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, each chapter accompanied by one of 12 heliogravures by Salvador Dalí.
Opinion
Framed Artifacts of Our Bodies
While at a retreat last month I came across an artist’s documentary artwork. I didn’t find out the artist’s name, but the work that he or she made stayed with me.
Interview
The Story of a Mysterious Artist Colony in India and Its Looming Eviction
“Our hope is that our audience gets to see the colony like the many artists in it see it: as a world with no distinction between life and art, where India’s past, present, and future blur together, a home that somehow — impossibly, incomprehensibly — still brims with possibility.”
Comics
Painting Apples
Maybe it's seeing all of this green...
Art
The Whimsical Forms of Soviet Bus Stops
For over a decade, photographer Christopher Herwig travelled through 15 former Soviet countries on a scavenger hunt for one specific form of architecture: the common bus stop.