Art
Perspectiva Corporum Regularium (Perspective of regular solids), created in 1568 by German goldsmith and printmaker Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508–1585), is a study in shapes inspired by the five Platonic solids: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
Art
Nearly a century after all 2,600 pounds of it were cast into the murky water of London's River Thames, what remains of the lost Doves Press type has been recovered by divers.
Art
This past weekend, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens hosted Indiecade East 2015 for its third year of independent games, talks, and community networking.
In Brief
Increasingly, the simple act of reading may not be flashy enough to compete with televised competitors.
Books
Migrant appropriates the vertical, accordion-bound form of a pre-Colombian codex to tell of a Central American family’s freight train journey to the United States.
Art
LOS ANGELES — Larry Sultan: Here and Home at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the first large-scale retrospective of the American photographer, who died in 2009.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a chance to preview six experimental operas, East of Borneo's latest Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, seductive cinematic paintings by Judith Eisler, and much more.
In Brief
Some 1,000 British artists have signed on to a cultural boycott of Israel, pledging their "support [for] the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality."
News
Last week the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution to curb the trade of looted antiquities from Iraq and Syria. UN Security Council Resolution 2199 prohibits the trade of artifacts illegally removed from Syria since 2011 and Iraq since 1990.
Announcement
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Art
Set to open in the summer of 2016, a sleek museum designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for a Norwegian zinc mine has been over a decade in the making, although parts of the attraction are already in place.
Art
This week may be freezing in New York, but things are heating up in the art world with a symposium on Nazis looted art, the importance of Brooklyn painting, the Chinese Lunar New York, bootlegged art, and more.