Art
In Kochi, India, a Biennial Makes Room for Reimagining the Region
NEW DELHI — The Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) launched in 2012 and has distinguished itself by the scale of its ambition.
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Artist Mel Chin Proposes a Solar Currency for the Sahara
ALBUQUERQUE — Mel Chin’s “The Potential Project,” represented by an installation at 516 Arts, embodies the teetering ambiguities of “first world” philanthropy.
Art
Something Old, Something New: An Exhibition Weds Technologies of Yesterday and Today
Walking into Central Booking on Ludlow Street is a little like entering a full-sized wunderkabinett.
Books
Flipping Through Mexico City's First Art Book Fair
MEXICO CITY — On the heels of Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, the Mexican capital now has its own celebration of arts publications.
Art
At the Heidelberg Project’s New Gallery, an Artist Grows Paper Facsimiles of Wilderness
DETROIT — Seeking to capitalize on the steadily growing interest in the Heidelberg Project, Guyton has taken steps to broaden its relevance and extend some of its notoriety in the direction of other emerging artists.
Art
Historical Angry Birds: Remixed "Peacock Room" Highlights Old Feud
WASHINGTON, DC — Waterston's work closely recreates Whistler's elegant chamber, but remixed into wreckage to express Whistler and Leyland's friendship, which disintegrated once Leyland laid eyes on Whistler's work.
Art
A Photographer Captures the Last Remaining Navajo Trading Posts
Trading posts first cropped up in 1870, two years after the Navajo treaty with the US government.
Art
Films That Train Their Lenses on a Media-Saturated Argentina
These works from Argentina explore the effects of living in a media-saturated world, but a theme as general as "media" can erase the specifics of a country's identity.
In Brief
The Car of the Future Could Be a Mirrored Minimalist Sculpture
Silicon Valley is convinced that self-driving cars are the future of transport, and that in a few decades, we'll look back at the vehicles of today — massive hunks of glass and metal hurtling around, powered by dumb humans — with disbelief.
News
Study Finds ISIS Militants Aren’t the Only Ones Looting Syrian Archaeological Sites
ISIS’s systematic looting in Syria has captured the world’s attention, but a new study shows they’re not the only ones selling off the country’s cultural heritage.
Comics
How My “Process" Works
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Opinion
Required Reading
This week, nonbinary people and transgender visibility, democratic architecture, Amazon is suing reviewers, the earliest use of the ellipsis symbol in English, and more.