Art
From Cum Shots to Orgasmic GIFs, a Playful Take on Virtual Sex
Faith Holland’s show TECHNOPHILIA at Transfer Gallery left me wanting more, kind of like I imagine a good dick pic would.
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News
North Korea's Top Architect Allegedly Executed, Possibly Due to Airport Design
When North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un toured the sparkling new Pyongyang Airport last week, he was happy. But throughout the event, the building's chief architect Ma Won Chun was conspicuously missing.
News
Google's New Visualization Tool Slips Slimy and Furry Creatures into Art History
You may have thought Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" could not get any more trippy, but researchers have developed new software that proves that yes, the Netherlandish painter's baffling triptych just needs a little bit of code to become a complete mind-bender.
Books
Where Primordial Lava Flows into Ice
Iceland, more than most places on the planet, frequently reveals the cataclysmic activity below its crust through volcanoes, fissures, and geothermal pools.
Art
Commemorating the Civil War with Brooklyn's Buried Dead
For 13 years, volunteers at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery scoured its archives for internments related to the US Civil War, whether soldier or civilian.
Interview
A Documentarian of Brooklyn's Underground Creative Culture
It was soon after meeting and befriending Oriana Leckert that I came to know her as the Person Who Knows What I Should Do in Brooklyn at All Times.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: nude Eiffel Tower performance lands artist in jail, a Jaume Plensa sculpture goes missing in Montreal, and a family wants its $100-million Monet back — even if it's fake.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a chance to see pioneering body-based video art from the 1990s, an artist builds an adobe structure at LACE, the #USC7 get their own show, and more.
News
Thanks to Budget Cuts, All Illinois State Museums Might Shutter
CHICAGO — Governor Bruce Rauner’s budget axe could lead to the closure of all five buildings in the Illinois State Museum system.
Art
Can You Solve These Early 20th-Century Newspaper Puzzles?
Better known for his realist paintings of New York City street life, Ashcan School artist John Sloan was also a master of visual mind-bending.
In Brief
Masked Men Storm London's National Portrait Gallery in Bizarre BP Protest
On Sunday, masked men entered the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London, causing panic and a "stampede," as the London Evening Standard reported.
Announcement
No Longer Empty Is Accepting Applications for the Fall 2015 NLE Curatorial Lab
No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab (NLE Lab) is a 15-week professional development program for emerging curators that is dedicated to the curation of site-specific exhibitions. [http://engine.adzerk.net/p/eyJhdiI6MzAyMzAsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyNjkyNTMsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6OTE4NTEyLCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjk