Art
A Miniature Town Full of Vintage Cars and Evocative Stories
There’s something slightly off about Elgin Park, the sleepy steel mill town where it’s eternally 1964.
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Art
An Exhibition of 100 Masks Shows Humanity's Enduring Thirst for Transformation
Around 100 masks of every contorted grimace imaginable, both human and animalistic, are assembled on the top floor of the Rubin Museum of Art for the new exhibition Becoming Another: The Power of Masks.
Opinion
The Problem with the "Medical Humanities"
A work of literature or art can be effective in different ways — most of which are by nature invisible.
Books
The Bleak Banality of Shopping in Communist Europe
"In a cityscape largely without commercial seduction, the banality of the shop windows underscored a real cultural difference between East and West," photographer David Hlynsky writes in his introduction to Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain.
News
Reviving the Fight to Save a British Brutalist Masterpiece
At the 11th hour, a British heritage organization has renewed a bid to save a major Brutalist building from destruction.
News
For #MuseumWeek, Institutions Share Their Secrets Online
What are museums hiding in their pasts and inside their collection storage vaults? Some of those secrets (or just lesser-known facts) are being shared by institutions around the world this Museum Week through the hashtag #secretsmw.
Art
The Men Who Manufacture Scientific Doubt
Merchants of Doubt, the latest documentary film by director Robert Kenner (Food, Inc., among others) uses a magician's sleight of hand as an allegory for the conning of the American public by a handful of corporate lobbyists and public-relations mercenaries.
Announcement
The Long Museum Presents 'Xu Zhen Solo Exhibition'
To mark the first anniversary of its inauguration, the Long Museum (West Bund) will host the grand opening of Xu Zhen Solo Exhibition on March 28, 2015.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6Nzg0NDgsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyMjU5NzQsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6ODA3NTA0LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjg0MTA3MSwiZmwiOjU0M
Art
Africa's Overlooked Modernist Architecture from an Era of Independence
Futuristic pyramids and boxy concrete forms rose up with the modernist architecture of Africa in the 1960s and '70s, although beyond the continent the radical forms aren't widely recognized.
Comics
The Books I Have Loved
(These just happen to be written by women.)
Art
A Native American Painter's Modernist Exploits, Recognized at Last
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison, now on view at the Minnesota History Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is a disarmingly beautiful exhibition.
Art
Last of China's Lotus Feet Women
As the last generation of Chinese women with bound feet ages into their final decades, Jo Farrell set out to photograph the survivors of this brutal beauty tradition.