Art
Two NYC Macbeths and the 1849 Riot Sparked by Their Rivalry
This week the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, announced that its Digital Image Collection is now under a Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Opinion
Hashtagging Racism: The Power of #IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Last night, in Ferguson, Missouri, police in riot gear entered residential neighbourhoods and lobbed teargas, flash bombs, rubber bullets, and noise cannons (also known as LRAD or Long Range Acoustic Devices) at people who were gathered peacefully to protest the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old, Mi
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Street Artists Sue Terry Gilliam for Copyright Infringement
Three street artists have filed a lawsuit against Terry Gilliam, alleging that the director "misappropriated" their copyrighted collaborative work in his upcoming film The Zero Theorem.
In Brief
Baroque Masterpiece by Guercino Stolen from Italian Church
This week, a large 17th-century Baroque painting by Italian artist Guercino went missing in the northern Italian city of Modena.
Art
The Retro Aesthetics of Teletext Art
Invented in England in the 1970s, teletext consists of colorful pages of simply formatted, blocky text broadcast on televisions, navigated via one's remote control.
Books
A Chaotic Compendium of the World's Depravity
No matter where French photographer Antoine d'Agata travels, he finds the same festering vein of marginalized depravity.
Art
Deconstructing an Artist's Dubious Claim
PHILADELPHIA — When I first saw William Pope.L’s “Claim” (2009), I was intrigued by its emphatic presence and endless detail. Created for the exhibition Ruffneck Constructivists at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, “Claim” is an enormous wall, about a foot thick, 3
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Thoughts on the Life and Art of Barbara DeGenevieve
If you go to the artist Barbara DeGenevieve’s website you will be greeted by laughter. Raucous, playful, sinister? But now also uncanny, because Barbara DeGenevieve died on Saturday, August 9, of complications from cervical cancer.
Comics
Is an Artist at Home in a Hotel?
Hotels may just be a natural habitat for artists.
Art
The Renaissance Anatomist Who Celebrated the Beauty of Flayed Flesh
When it was published in 1543, Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica changed anatomical study with its elegant illustrations of the interior of the human body.
Art
Encounters with an Artist Who Paints in Public
CHICAGO — Artist Audrey Ushenko literally makes public art.
Art
Saving the Environment One Death at a Time
In the United States, funerals often seem to be at war with death's decay. Rather than let our bodies decompose into the soil, we embalm and coat them in makeup, seal them in wood and metal caskets, lower them into waterproof vaults.