News
Art History Darling Florine Stettheimer to Get Digital Catalogue Raisonné
The artist is celebrated not only for her compositions exploring the opulence and culture of NYC, but also for proudly breaking down social barriers.
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Books
Why Is It So Easy to Buy a Human Skull Online?
Damien Huffer and Shawn Graham’s These Were People Once mines the illicit online sale of human remains and the social media algorithms that enable it.
Art
How Commercial Photography Sold Modernism
The Real Thing at the Met Museum shows that the advertising tactics of commercial studios were in dialogue with avant-garde art in the 1920 and ’30s.
News
TV Show’s Bizarre Mock Student Encampment Draws Protests in NYC
Students and activists denounced the set for FBI: Most Wanted, which features tents, climate signage, and deliberately misspelled words.
Art
Is Upstate Art Weekend Worth It? We Asked 11 Participants
Buoyed by the beautiful weather, a constant stream of visitors showed up eager to learn about a cultural scene that continues to grow.
Art
These Kamala Harris Memes Didn’t Just Fall Out of a Coconut Tree
The meme has quickly gone from ironic to iconic, and the Harris campaign is riding that wave like its life depends on it.
Art
Fritz Scholder’s Art of Non-Belonging
Scholder, who called himself a "non-Indian Indian," refused to conform to expectations and rejected limiting definitions of his identity as Native American.
Books
The Delightfully Saturated History of Color Charts
Three tomes give new meaning to “full color” by chronicling the visual history of color charts, swatches, palettes, and more.
Art
Contemporary Artists Breathe New Life Into a Historic California Mansion
The John Rowland Mansion is now open to the public with site-specific contemporary artworks centering access and found materials.
Art
The Art of Touch
An exhibition explores touch, from the possessive love of a mother holding her child to the violent and coercive contact that sometimes takes place between strangers.
Art
Is Toronto’s Art Triennial Just for Those “In the Know”?
The triennial maps what it means to be an artist from here, from somewhere else but now living here, or from here but living somewhere else.
Film
You Can’t Finish This Brian Eno Doc in a Single Lifetime
An algorithm organizes a unique ordering of scenes for each screening, meaning there are millions of versions of the film.