Art
In Defense of Magic
Childhood is the kingdom of magic. In this world, the child invents new secret languages, speaks with people and creatures visible only to her eyes. She is happy.
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Art
A Photographer in Conversation with William Blake
There are at least three exhibitions in Hidden Likeness: Photographer Emmet Gowin at the Morgan currently at the Morgan Library & Museum.
Books
The Languages of Bernar Venet’s Conceptual Poetry
Since the outset of his career, Bernar Venet has been an inveterate experimentalist, an intrepid worker in a surprising variety of media. “People know my sculptures, of course,” he says, most likely referring to the monumental steel arcs that have garnered him international renown, “but they don’t k
Books
Delving into Multiple Depths: Barbara Henning’s 'A Day Like Today'
Poems preoccupied with geography, for the impatient reader, can feel less like landscapes and more like land mines to be avoided.
Interview
Beer with a Painter, LA Edition: Hank Pitcher
Hank Pitcher met me when I arrived in Santa Barbara, and as we made our first drive along the beach, he explained that it was one of the rare places with a south-facing coastline, which affects the light, surf, and feel of the area.
Books
Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Is Digitized
The 17th-century Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shi zhu zhai shu hua pu) is so fragile that until digitization no one was allowed to open it.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: the FBI released security footage of the night before the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, a seven-year-old boy got stuck in a work of public art, and the Ashmolean Museum acquired a trove of illustrated correspondence between Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Helen Mary Gaskel
Art
Saintly Collages of Everyday People
In a five-part exhibition series, El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem is highlighting women artists.
Art
Seeing the Art for the Trees
CHICAGO — In the entire history of art, how many works depict a tree as their main subject?
Art
An Artwork Forces Us to Face Mexico’s Disappeared Students
People who have the luxury of not being directly affected by the world’s many injustices often feel fatigued by so much bad news.
News
Instagram Deletes Activist Account After #KKKorGOP Posts
Last night, the activist group Dream Defenders contributed to the first GOP debate through Instagram, posting on its account collaged images of Republican candidates and members of the KKK, tagged #KKKorGOP.
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, Indiana, Michigan, Washington, and the UK.