Art
J.M.W. Turner, the Sublime, and Me
LOS ANGELES — “You don’t experience the sublime looking through double glazing, or at a distant electric storm, or watching a sea rage on TV.”
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News
High School Art Showing Police Violence Spawns Social Media Outrage
When a New Jersey high school art department turned its gym into a temporary gallery last Tuesday, it couldn't have predicted the controversy that would follow.
Art
Abstract Paintings that Reflect the Rhythms of Our Time
In terms of freewheeling, soul-bearing angst, Abstract Expressionism might once seemed to have had the final word.
News
Shigeru Ban and Other Architects to Build Shelters for Nepal Earthquake Survivors
The Pritzker Prize–winning architect Shigeru Ban, famous for his humanitarian designs, has launched a campaign to provide shelter to victims of the April 25 earthquake in Nepal.
Art
New York's Little-Known Collection of American Artist Palettes
Started in 1871 as an artist sketch club, the Salmagundi Club continues to operate out of the last surviving lower Fifth Avenue brownstone in Manhattan.
Announcement
Accepting Applications for Making + Meaning: An Architecture Summer Program at SCI-Arc
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is well known for its progressive curriculum, and for a board of trustees that counts among its members such titans as Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, and Eric Owen Moss. [http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NjI5NTUsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyNDk5N
In Brief
Woman Found Guilty of Criminal Harassment for Instagramming Street Art
Jennifer Pawluck, the Montrealer who was arrested in 2013 for posting a photo of a piece of street art on Instagram, has been convicted of criminal harassment and, on Thursday, was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and 18 months probation.
Art
A Cold Case Victim Is Honored by the Artist Who Reconstructed Her Face
This January at the New York Academy of Art, 11 students sculpted faces for 11 unidentified crime victims as part of a Forensic Sculpture Workshop.
Comics
Home Is Where the Art Is
Once upon a time I moved to Arkansas.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Picasso and global inequality, mistaking art for a garbage can, Twitter's abuse problem, gayness vs. homosexuality, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Nails
As reported this week in the New York Times, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered emergency measures to address wage theft and health hazards faced by the thousands of people who work in New York State’s nail salon industry
Books
Rats Build Their Labyrinth: Oulipo in the 21st Century
The Oulipo, short for the Ouvroir de littérature potentielle [Workshop for potential literature], was founded in Paris in 1960 by two polymaths: Raymond Queneau, a former surrealist known for writing Zazie in the Metro, and François Le Lionnais, a mathematician and engineer.