Comics
I Like It, So What?!
When I was a kid, being different was terrifying.
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Art
Human Nests and Other Highlights of African Design
Designer Porky Hefer's organic capsules are part of Grains of Paradise: Contemporary African Design in collaboration with Southern Guild, a group exhibition at a gallery specializing in contemporary design.
Art
Making Sense of Paintings That Tell Snippets of Stories
The narrative impulse in painting is nothing new.
Art
The Many Faces of Abraham Lincoln Impersonators
When Greta Pratt photographed the annual meeting of the Association of Lincoln Presenters in 2004, she plunked a chair down in a field for attendees to sit in and told them, “I want you to summon up your inner Lincoln.”
Announcement
Pulitzer Arts Foundation Completes Renovation to Tadao Ando–Designed Building
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, located in St. Louis, will reopen on May 1 following a major renovation that has transformed the lower level of its Tadao Ando-designed building and nearly doubled its public space.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6Nzk4NjYsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyMzQyNzEsImNoIjoxOT
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News
Japanese Americans Protest Sale of Art from World War II Internment Camps [UPDATED]
“They offered to give me things to the point of embarrassment, but not to sell them,” Allen Hendershott Eaton wrote of the artworks, furniture, and photographs gifted him by Japanese American internees.
Art
A Documentary Offers a New Look at the House of Dior
In his new film, director Frédéric Tcheng traces the voyage that Raf Simons, the current creative director of the House of Dior, embarks upon when designing his first haute couture collection there.
Art
An Aquatic Video Performance Immerses Us in the California Drought
LOS ANGELES — Imagine that you are trying to get dressed underwater but every time you lift your arms the water you’re wading through pulls them back down.
Books
Photographs Document the Global Traditions of Living with the Dead
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us, a photography book by Paul Koudounaris out this month from Thames & Hudson, is a visual narrative of how a more visceral relationship to the dead thrives across the globe.
Art
Independent Art Spaces Thrive in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY — In the mid '90s, a small group of project- and artist-run spaces emerged in Mexico, attracting international recognition for the artists involved and kickstarting the boom in contemporary Mexican art.
Art
The Guerrilla Girls Are Still Relevant After All These Years
CLAREMONT, Calif. — When I first saw the work of the Guerrilla Girls in high school, I had a similar reaction as when I first read Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”: ashamed that something so obvious had to be laid out for me.
In Brief
Security Footage of Dallas Museum of Art's Crane Crash Oozes Suspense
Newly released security camera footage of a crane collapsing on the Dallas Museum of Art is pure Hitchcock.