Opinion
The Virtual-Reality Future Is Here
Many expect 2016 to be the year that virtual reality (VR) finally takes off.
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Art
Rediscovered Glass Plate Photographs Show the Skies 120 Years Ago
Over 150 glass plate photographs of the moon, stars, and solar eclipses were recently rediscovered in the basement of the the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) in Copenhagen.
Performance
A Festival Offers Experimental Theater that Audiences Can Relate To
Bertolt Brecht is rolling in his grave right now — but only to better see the provocative theater happening at The Public.
Art
Planting an Endless Fruit Orchard that Could Branch Around the World
What if the community garden was blown up to a national or even global scale, creating a huge, ever-growing network of edible flora tended by the public?
News
In Response to Censorship, Artists Incite Users to Flood Facebook with Nudity
If you've ever experienced the frustration of having your Facebook account disabled after posting a nude work of art, mark January 14 as your new favorite holiday: Facebook Nudity Day.
Art
In Paris, Andy Warhol's Works Are Shadows of Their Former Selves
PARIS — With electronic digital simulacra, there is no longer a spent nostalgia for natural semblance: Warholian reproducibility is the fundamental logic and code of our information society.
Books
A Visual Essay Recalls the Latin Alphabet's Pictorial Past
The Latin alphabet's letter A can be traced back to an Egyptian hieroglyph of an ox head; the letter M is believed to have its origins in a hieroglyph representing water.
Announcement
New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Marcel Dzama
Following the highly acclaimed installations by FAILE, JR, and Dustin Yellin, New York City Ballet collaborates for the 2016 Art Series with Winnipeg native and Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist Marcel Dzama.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NzY1NTUsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozNDYzNDcsImN
Art
Help Rebuild the University of Baghdad’s Destroyed Art Library, One Book at a Time
In 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, looters set fire to the library of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad. Seventy thousand books were reduced to ashes.
Art
Marilyn Minter's Dirty Visions of Foods, Faces, and Feet
DENVER — Marilyn Minter’s life’s work, four decades of which are brought together in Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, presents the viewer with a Lacanian mirror.
Comics
Looking Over an Artist's Shoulder
I love copying paintings.
Art
The Candid Poetry and Inclusive Politics of the Jakarta Biennale
JAKARTA — Located in a large warehouse in the south of town, the Jakarta Biennale 2015, titled Neither Forward nor Back, mixes works by Indonesian and international artists.