Books
One Hell at a Time: Matt Freedman’s Cancer Chronicles
To be honest, Relatively Indolent but Relentless, Matt Freedman’s artist’s book recounting his 35-day incarceration on Planet Cancer, got me at the dedication: “For Radiant Jude.”
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Crowdsourcing the Bronze Age in a New Platform for Archaeology
Some of the most significant records on human history remain inaccessible to a wide audience. A new open source crowdsourcing platform called MicroPasts is looking to involve online amateurs in collaborations with professional archaeologists to create digital records of archive collections.
Art
Breaking the Ground Between Art and Architecture
In recent years, the connections between architecture, art, and design have, in many cases, become inextricably bound to another in a kind of symbiotic relationship. For some observers, architecture appears relevant to the twenty-first century only when it emulates an abstract sculptural presence.
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Art Movements
Major arrest in Glafira Rosales forgery case, Brutalist icon Prentice Hospital is no more, Diego Rivera's Detroit mural named a National Historic Landmark, "stolen" Banksy work going to auction, Rachel Whiteread designs new London Tube map, and more from the week in art news.
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Robert Capa's Color Film
Famed for his iconic black-and-white images from war’s torn edge — humane, harrowing snapshots of the Spanish Civil War and World War II — Robert Capa also carried on an enduring exchange in color film. Beginning in earnest in 1941 and continuing until his tragic death 13 years later, Capa shot thou
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Unnerving Portraits Stage Close Contact Between Strangers
From 2007 to 2013, New York–based photographer Richard Renaldi approached strangers across the United States and asked them to pose together, close, as if they were friends or lovers.
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A View from the Easel
Studios in Australia, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas.
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Thunderbirds and Underwater Panthers in an Overlooked American Indian Art History
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York is holding the first major survey of art by Anishinaabe artists in the Great Lakes region, with over a hundred works from artists both contemporary and ancient, all linked by the 10,000-year history of human settlement in the area.
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Artists Pick Artists: Eftihis Patsourakis
The art of Eftihis Patsourakis is austere and humane, economic in means and layered in reflection. Cigarette ends, thrift shop paintings, Post-it notes (items only a curious nomad, or archeologist from the future, would find important) become the foundational elements of his work.
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A Dark Assemblage of Doll Parts in a Hidden Upper East Side Gallery
Casa de Costa's new location on the Upper East Side takes over the two floors of a 19th century carriage house secreted behind an apartment building.
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Welcoming a New Gallery to Williamsburg
History has it that over the past two decades, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has gentrified beyond recovery and its flourishing art scene picked up and gone elsewhere. This may be partly true, but not entirely. There are still artists and galleries in Williamsburg.
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The Mysterious Tale of Hawaii's van Gogh
The story of Arman Manookian, one of Hawaii's foremost modernist painters of the 1920s and '30s, is full of mystery and sadness.