Art
Domestic Interior Paintings Show How the 1% Lived in the 19th Century
Photographs of immaculate, domestic interiors are common to us today, with countless images of private homes readily found in design magazines and on social media.
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Interview
On Drawing with Vapor and Painting with Glass
LONDON — To note that Larry Bell was a player in the California-based movement Light and Space does not prepare you for his latest show in London.
Art
Building a Glitch in 3D
If you look at a photograph of the newly worked facade of Switzerland's House of Electronic Arts Basel, it may appear as if the image failed to properly load.
Books
The Resurrection of a Lost 19th-Century Butterfly Manuscript
Titian Peale could have been the first major American lepidopterist, but instead his five decades of vibrant butterfly illustrations and research languished, unpublished until 130 years after his death.
Art
A New Lab for Masters and Students of the Moving Image in Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn. — “Find Your Voice” reads the tag line on the Independent Filmmakers Project Minnesota (IFP MN) logo, a 1950s-tinged, lipstick-red bit of celluloid imprinted with the lowercase white letters “ifp.”
In Brief
Meta-Corporate Ad Torches Burning Man
David Foster Wallace was right, meta-television is the future, but a new meta-corporate ad by Quiznos may be one of the best examples of how corporations will serve up anti-corporate humor for the masses in an attempt to advance their own toasty agenda.
Art
A Polychromatic Playground of Inflatable Sculptures
DETROIT — Hey, denizens of the art world, let’s take a moment to consider the radical implications of chilling the fuck out for a minute.
Art
Contemporary Takes on the Self in a Manhattan Church
Artistic interpretations of self are inhabiting the nave of Manhattan's Church of St. Paul the Apostle, with contemporary sculpture, painting, college, and other media installed alongside the candlelit chapels and religious icons.
News
USC Administration Shuts Down Art Students' Blog
Last month, an unofficial blog set up by graduate students at USC’s Roski School of Art was quietly taken down.
Art
18th-Century Anatomical Illustrations Reveal Flayed Flesh and Shining Bones
In the 18th-century, French artist Jacques Gautier-D’Agoty painted numerous dissected corpses with muted colors and quiet dignity that made them appear alive, despite the flayed skin and exposed muscles.
Art
Mike Kelley's Superman Complex
Every hero has an origin story.
Comics
Artists and Their Big Secret
It takes a while to figure out.