Books
Looking Back on 100 Years of Typewriter Art
Along with vinyl records and vintage synthesizers, typewriters have made a nostalgia-fueled resurgence in the digital age.
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Art
Live Parakeets and Bullfrogs Amid the Wreckage of War
Amid the wreckage of rocks and concrete flit two dozen parakeets, and lurking in the subterranean marsh is a colony of bullfrogs, crouched on lily pads or breaking the surface of the six-inch-deep muddy water with their heads.
Art
A Woman Artist Who Turns Pornography into Painting
When I was coming of age, I did not have access to explicit images of female or male genitalia.
Art
Art in Odd Places Revisits a Decade of Fleeting Experiences
People who encountered a vending machine dispensing free compliments in the Meatpacking District or a group of women knitting and unraveling white aprons in Union Square over the weekend might have considered them part of New York City's continually anomalous street life, or felt an odd pang of déjà
Announcement
ICPNY’s Two-Day Print Fest Opens This Friday
International Print Center New York's Print Fest, a two-day print showcase featuring undergraduate and graduate art students from the New York area, begins this Friday, October 16.
Art
The Existential Experience of a Chardin Still Life
Does drawing define, and color merely decorate? Or is drawing just the menu, and color the meal?
In Brief
Secret Canine-Hater Wes Anderson Is Making a Stop-Motion Film About Dogs
Dogs in Wes Anderson films typically have a bad time.
Art
Learning Greensboro: Records of Everydayness (Part 2)
GREENSBORO, NC — Since I last wrote, I’ve spent most of my time with the subjects of my soon-to-be fabricated plaques: local residents of Greensboro who have lived, worked, or in one case walked, along South Elm Street for the past 15 to 55 years.
Art
The First Artwork Made in Outer Space
LONDON — The first human to spacewalk wanted to be an artist before he learned to fly.
Art
Opulent Propaganda: The Subterranean Paradise of the Moscow Metro
For two weeks last year, Canadian photographer David Burdeny spent his nights 200 feet underground, shooting the surreal opulence of the Moscow Metro.
Art
Skeletons on the Shelves: Museums' Slow Return of Indigenous Remains
Active repatriation of indigenous remains in museums only gathered serious momentum in the 1980s.
Comics
The Old Man and the Magnifying Glass
One time when I was a teenager I was snooping over this man's shoulder at the museum.