News
Aussie Artist Wants to Put the "High" in High School with Educational Marijuana
Australian artist Leon Ewing has come under fire for suggesting that drugs should be given to high school students to help unlock their creative potential.
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Art
In Two Istanbul Galleries, Artists Piece Together Memories of Gezi
ISTANBUL — Central Istanbul looks markedly different today than it did around this time two years ago.
News
The World Waits Anxiously as ISIS Seizes Ancient City of Palmyra
The ancient Roman city of Palmyra in Syria has been seized by ISIS fighters, fueling fears that its ancient artifacts and buildings could meet the same fate suffered by antiquities in Mosul, Nimrud, and Hatra.
Art
A Noise Festival Makes Melody in Strange Ways
Ende Tymes, the increasingly extensive “festival of noise and abstract liberation,” successfully returned for its fifth incarnation last week.
Interview
Why Are People So Afraid of Nude Performance Art?
SAN DIEGO — Over the course of the past week, Electronic Disturbance Theater co-founder Ricardo Dominguez has been at the center of massive media controversy.
Comics
The Art of Working Through a Hangover
Step 1: Actually wake up.
Art
Open Source Software to Catalogue Cultural Heritage Before a Crisis
Cultural heritage management tends to suffer from limited funding and resources, which can make a crisis — whether natural disaster, pipeline construction, or war — that much more catastrophic for assessing what's in need of protection.
Art
Traces of Human Civilization, Cast from Styrofoam Packaging
The exhibition in the back room of A.I.R. Gallery's new space in Dumbo feels like a cross between a temple and an archaeological site.
News
British Scientists Find Trove of Animal Mummies with No Bones
It sounds like the beginnings of a detective tale: researchers in the UK recently scanned 300 animal mummies from Egypt only to discover that a full third held no bodies.
Performance
The Slippery Politics of Weaponized Theater
Trash Cuisine is a play about the visceral horrors of political violence.
News
NASA Launches $2.25M Design Competition to 3D Print Habitats for Mars
The hope is that 3D printing and the incorporation of spacecraft waste and materials from the alien world can in turn help address affordable housing on Earth.
Art
The (Un)Changing Portrayal of White Women in 100 Years of Advertisements
The idea is so ingenious, it almost seems obvious: take advertisements and remove the text that makes them so, leaving only a string of images behind.