Art
Sending Out an SOS to Save Our Concrete Brutalist Monsters
The monolithic concrete that forms some of our most creative 20th-century architectural heritage is in danger of disappearing.
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Art
In a Time of Displacement, Arab Artists Negotiate the Meaning of Home
TORONTO — Home Ground provides a kind of vast cosmos that reflects the rootlessness of the immigrant experience and the challenge of finding, developing, and maintaining an identity.
Interview
A Conversation with One of the Curators Bringing African Art to the 2016 Armory Show
To curate the 2016 Focus, the Armory invited Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, the founders of Contemporary And (C&), a primarily online magazine that focuses on contemporary art being made in Africa or originating with artists from that continent and its diaspora.
Art
A Designer Experiments with Digital Design, After 60 Years of Handcrafted Furniture
Designer Wendell Castle has made a career out of challenging the boundaries that define art and furniture.
Comics
A Super Scientific Analysis of Mimetic Behavior in Artists
Eyeballs recognize something beautiful is present.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Calatrava's new Brazilian museum, an intergenerational dialogue in the arts, Chicago artists respond to the Laquan MacDonald video, issues with public art in New York, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Star
The greatly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the series, opened this weekend.
Art
Master of the Lost, Neglected, and Overlooked
A number of innovative artists of the first half of the 20th century discovered and worked with collage and the related practice of assemblage.
Art
For the Love of Paint
Ambition has nothing to do with scale. The largest painting in Eleanor Ray: paintings at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects measures 10 x 8 inches.
Books
Keep Looking: Rebecca Wolff’s 'One Morning—.'
So serene an entry point into this volume, the title One Morning—. promises the lengthening of sunlight across the expanse of a modest domestic existence, incidents without excitement.
Music
Carly Rae Jepsen, Antipersona
Carly Rae Jepsen is the emptiest pop diva to have released an album this year, and that’s not an insult.
Art
Speak, Memory: Becky Suss’s Painterly Anthropology
In his 1973 essay “Approaches to What?,” an underground classic of documentary aesthetics, French writer Georges Perec opposes the drive to find meaning primarily in “the big event, the untoward, the extra-ordinary: the front-page splash, the banner headlines.”