Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, there's a lot of performance going on across New York, so we have prepared a shortlist of what is worth seeing. And may I suggest you check out the 10th Annual Hip-Hop Festival.
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Bringing Back a Lost Museum
In 1945, workers at Brown University's biology department were clearing out storage space when they stumbled on a giant trove of natural and ethnographic specimens and artifacts.
Interview
This Journal Is Not a Market
LOS ANGELES — Here’s the problem: “It is how people come to see art as a tool, a flavor, or a device.” So says Charlie White, editor of The Enemy, a triannual online journal that publishes long-form essays on criticism, social science, poetry, celebrity, and other cultural interests.
Art
3D Printing Coney Island's Bygone Electric Eden
Luna Park at Coney Island was an "electric Eden" of spindly towers and ornate architecture laced with some 250,000 lights. The amusement park was closed in 1944 after a catastrophic fire, and mostly photographs remain. To recapture some of the lost wonder, artist Fred Kahl is building a 3D-printed f
In Brief
'The Shining' in Emoji Is Pretty Great
Emoji translation is a fine art. The first masterpiece of the genre was undoubtedly Emoji Dick (aka Moby Dick in emoji) by Fred Benenson, but since then there have been varying degrees of success at translating the true essence of a text into a string of mostly adorable symbols.
News
Study Finds Making Art May Keep Our Brains Healthy
We've all heard about art's psychological and physiological effects. Researchers have found, for instance, that a lunchtime jaunt to an art gallery can reduce work-related stress, and that creating art might even help cancer patients. But what about art's neurological impact — can picking up a paint
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Extinct Feathers Flock Together at Smithsonian
Once ubiquitous in North America, by 1914 the population of passenger pigeons had been reduced by relentless hunting to a single bird named Martha at the Cincinnati Zoo. When Martha herself was found dead in her cage on September 1 of that year, she was packed on 300 pounds of ice and rushed to the
In Brief
Gallery Auctions Off Artworks to the Highest Emotional Bidder
As those of us without mountains of money continue to gawk and gripe over the unceasingly exorbitant sums fetched by art auctions, a Swedish glassware brand has gone out on a limb and tried something different: auctioning off artworks to people who have the strongest physical reactions to them.
Art
Inside the Paris Home of a Founding Father of Electronic Music
PARIS — Pierre Henry, aged father of electronic music, lives in a small house that also serves as his studio, in the twelfth arrondissement of Paris. I recently went there with a small group of people to hear one of his magnificent musique concrète concerts that he performs live from his studio mixi
Comics
Art and the Sisyphean Struggle
The struggle itself is enough to fill an artist's heart.
Art
When Snakes Could Walk: Contemporary Artists Take On the Garden of Eden
In a 1483 German Bible, the Garden of Eden is depicted as a corralled green circle; Adam and Even are ejected from its manicured grass to a hilly wilderness, with a trail leading off into the unknown. This idealized interpretation of original sin sits alongside more modern takes on our relationship
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, letting art orgs die, Marina has a headache, criticism of Gehry's plans in Philly, LGBTQ issues at Manifesta 10, NYC's shadow transit system, copyrighting scents, and more.