In Brief
More Emojis = More Sex
The next time your parents and other denizens of the older generation criticize you for using too many emojis, you can scandalize them further by retorting that more emojis correlate with more sex.
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Art
Excavating Environmental Politics from Pristine Paintings and Photos
Art with an environmentalist message can take very literal forms, from a chunk of Arctic ice kept frozen by solar power to a field of wheat planted in a bustling metropolis, but it can also come in the guise of elegant abstract paintings and digitally manipulated photographs.
Art
A Brief Look at the 2015 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts
Often lost amid the Oscar season hype parade, the Academy Award–nominated short films are the lagniappe of the affair, a little extra dose of movie popcorn to munch on and enjoy, even if you skip out on the actual award show.
Books
Tales of Japanese Spirits Give Form to Our Deepest Fears
Have you ever had a supernatural experience, a moment unexplained by reason or logic that left you feeling as if a mysterious force was present?
Art
Painting the Land Before Time: A Victorian Vision of Dinosaur Life
From 1805 to as recently as 2000, Princeton University exhibited one of the great college natural history collections, rivaling those of peers Harvard and Yale.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: A 6.5-ton ground-to-air missile was installed beside London's Hayward Gallery, an appellate court ruled in favor of the Met's "pay what you wish" policy, and a Jeff Koons exhibition was cancelled due to "a lack of funding."
Art
Lampooning the Art World, One Ad at a Time
I see Bailey's face most places now because I signed up for the You Museum — the "world's first and only personalized museum that's with you wherever you go."
Books
The Troubled, Creative Lives of Almost Famous Women
Megan Mayhew Bergman’s short-story collection Almost Famous Women, I admit, would have caught my attention simply by its title, as I have an insatiable fascination with eccentric women in history.
Art
After a Call for Change, Artists Respond
What kind of painting do you make in the face of the killing of an unarmed civilian by a police officer? What type of drawing sums up the pain of more than a century of institutional racism?
Art
A Field Guide to the Invisible Internet Infrastructure of NYC
The internet can seem ubiquitous and invisible at once, but it relies on an elaborate infrastructure that's sometimes buried just below our feet.
In Brief
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Amateur Artists
Albert and Victoria may be no Raphael, but their work is more tasteful by far than that of their celebrity-artist counterparts.
News
Museo del Prado Leads the Charge Toward Better Accessibility for the Blind
Touching the Prado invites visually impaired people to touch relief replicas of six collection masterpieces.