Opinion
Advice from Jenny Holzer for the NFL and Ray Rice
What happens when you combine Ray Rice, football, a meme, and Jenny Holzer?
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Joseph Gross Gallery Presents Ted Lawson's "The Map is Not The Territory"
For his first solo show at Joseph Gross Gallery [http://engine.nectarads.com/r?e=eyJhdiI6NzE3NjgsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoxNDc0MzcsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6NDQwNTYyLCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjUyODAwNCwiZmwiOjI3NDI3MSwiaXAiOiI1NC44Mi4xOTcuNTgiLCJudyI6MjA3LCJwYyI6MCwicHIiOjE2NjYsInJ0IjoxLCJzdCI6MCwidXIiOiJodHRwOi8
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Albrecht Dürer, Apocalyptic Self-Publishing Pioneer
A 1511 edition of Dürer's Apocalypsis (The Apocalypse) is just one of the many literary and artistic achievements in Marks of Genius: Treasures of the Bodleian Library now at the Morgan Library & Museum.
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The Pitfalls of Art as Therapy
CHICAGO — Invented in 2011, Zachary Cahill’s USSA 2012 began as a one-off joke, a half-sketched theoretical future where America was reshaped as a socialist nation.
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Early 20th-Century Kite Cameras, the Pre-Drones
"The hitherto impossible in photography is our specialty," was the motto of early 20th-century photographer George R. Lawrence's Chicago studio. Among Lawrence's great experiments was the use of kites for aerial photography.
News
Is Creativity Linked to Mobility?
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil," American author Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote.
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Architecture for Humanity at the New Aspen Art Museum
ASPEN, Colorado — Despite its reputation as a resort town for the 1%, the heart of Aspen looks much like a classic Western American town. The new Aspen Art Museum, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban, stands out in this context in both height and design.
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Procrasti-nation
A rotten place to visit, let alone live.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a Rothko sells for ~$150 million, NASA's moon photos, identity of Jack the Ripper uncovered, violence of architecture, art institutions and imperialism, screenshots as POV, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Cloud
Newsweek reported this week that the use of the Cloud has grown so much in recent years that "according to Greenpeace, if this ‘collective cloud’ were a single country, it would rank sixth in the world, in terms of energy consumption, behind only Russia, India, Japan, the U.S. and China, in that ord
Interview
John Yau and Justine Kurland Discuss the Relationship of Photography, Poetry, and Narrative
The following email exchange with the photographer Justine Kurland focuses on her exhibition, Sincere Auto Care, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, which is accompanied by a self-published book with the same title.
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The Improvised Body: The Reemergence of Senga Nengudi
The artist Senga Nengudi was recently honored with dual retrospectives of her work at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art and RedLine Gallery. The MCA featured the black and brown pantyhose of her long-running R.S.V.P. series, which was stretched, contorted, and knotted into abstract echoes of every