Art
Oracle Bones: A 3,000-Year-Old Voice of the Dead
While dating back 3,000 years, no one recognized how special the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty were until 1899.
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Fictional Collaborations Between Artists and Architects
What if the day Picasso and Le Corbusier had spent wandering the Unité d'habitation in Marseille turned into a real structural collaboration? Italian illustrator Federico Babina has imagined such collisions of visual artists with architects in a series called Artisect.
In Brief
Lack of Air-Conditioning Warps Raphael Painting at Rome Museum
In order to visit the Galleria Borghese in Rome, you must buy timed tickets online in advance.
News
Counter-Competition Seeks Alternatives to Controversial Guggenheim Helsinki
As the official Guggenheim Helsinki design competition drew to a close this week, a rival contest was announced: Next Helsinki.
Art
Portraits of the "Enemy" Challenge Abuses of American Power
At the height of the Iraq War in 2006, attorney Susan Burke invited fashion photographer Chris Bartlett to focus his lens on a new subject.
Art
Eviction, Group Marriage, and What I Did Last Sunday
Last Sunday afternoon, as baffled tourists watched, an old-fashioned “Happening” occurred under the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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An Artist's Ark Meets Its Fate on Lake Superior
DULUTH, Minn. — It was a magnificent sight when it first launched. Floating 20 feet from shore, Sean Connaughty’s “Ark of the Anthropocene” seemed to glow on the dark waves of Lake Superior, drawing on real science, Biblical narrative, and science fiction all at once.
Art
Sources of Harm: Notes on the Alternative Artworld
Within and beyond the American artworld, the politics of race have assumed a central position this year with a degree of ugliness that feels particularly virulent.
Comics
Kids Act a Lot Like Artists
Last weekend, just about all our friends from Brooklyn with kids took over the hotel.
Books
A Desk That's Your Future Coffin, GPS Shoes, and More Oddly Practical Inventions
London-based artist Dominic Wilcox sees potential for improvement in all aspects of life, whether it's a GPS for remembering names in social situations or a work desk that could be a future coffin for "those who work hard all their lives and then die."
Interview
Between the Mystic and the Mundane: Charles Thomson Defends Stuckism
LONDON — Eighteen short months ago, Charles Thomson, the world’s most vocal champion of figurative painting, nearly hung up his brush. After some 30 years painting thick black lines and flat planes of color (“I called it Cloisonism, which was a 19th century practice which Van Gogh was involved with
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Finding More than Fashion in the Legacy of Nigerian Photographer J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere
When photographer J. D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere passed away this February, he left behind an archive of over 10,000 photographs of his home country Nigeria.