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.
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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.
Performance
The Tricky Business of Dancing with a Robot
It's hard to resist a dancing robot. Taiwanese choreographer Huang Yi's dance piece Huang Yi & YUKA, currently having its US premiere at New York's 3LD Art and Technology Center, shows that it's also very hard to share the stage with a robot.
Art
Against Amnesia: The Cultural Boycott of Israel Matters
Editor's note: The following article, written by Amin Husain, Nicholas Mirzoeff, and Nitasha Dhillon as MTL Collective, is a response to the "Report on the Cultural Boycott of Israel," which we published last week. This is the second in a continuing series exploring BDS and its connection to the art
Books
A Portal to Unite the Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books Collection
This month the Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books Collection launched an online platform that unifies artists' books from across several Smithsonian collections.
News
HSBC Leak Reveals Art World’s Forays into Sketchy Swiss Banking
The recent HSBC leak, which has revealed that between 2006 and 2007 the bank's Swiss branch helped clients conceal some $102 billion from tax authorities, lists a number of prominent art and culture figures among the 30,000 people whose account information was released.
Art
An Artist Turns Surveillance into Affection
LOS ANGELES — Artist Jennifer Moon is not the first or the last to experiment with self-surveillance, documenting selfies of her every moment for anyone and no one.
Art
Reliving Our (Clueless) Teenage Lives
The movie Beyond Clueless opens at high school’s gates, signaling our venture into teenage life.
Art
Wondrous Museum Relics Go Online for the 200th Anniversary of Waterloo
Museums around Europe have rallied a troop of artifacts to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo's 200th anniversary.
News
Five Finalists Compete to Build Controversial Holocaust Memorial in Warsaw
Last week, the Remembrance and Future Foundation (RFF) announced the five finalists competing to design a controversial Warsaw monument to Poles who helped Jews during the German occupation of Poland from 1939–45.
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Marlene Dumas Paints Ambiguity into a Black-and-White World
LONDON — Walking through The Image as Burden, Marlene Dumas’s retrospective at Tate Modern, is like venturing into a forest of images.