Art
A Photographer's Elegy to Kodak City
In her series Kodak City, Catherine Leutenegger documents the photographic giant's now-dilapidated headquarters using the same medium that Kodak made accessible to millions around the world.
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Art
Henri Langlois: Remembering a Titan of French Cinema
PARIS — With the ubiquity of cinema today — in airplanes, on the internet, on cable movie channels — familiarity may not always breed contempt, exactly, but it does tend to inspire complacency.
In Brief
250 New Emoji Are on the Way
The Unicode Consortium (which sounds like a comic book crime organization) has released approximately 250 emoji as part of Version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard, which includes 2,834 new characters.
Opinion
How Big Media Protects a Big Dick: The Case of Terry Richardson
Every magazine story begins with its headline. In the case of the profile of fashion photographer Terry Richardson on New York magazine's The Cut, that headline takes the form of a question: "Is Terry Richardson an Artist or a Predator?"
Announcement
Young Artists’ Panel at the Jewish Museum to Explore Current State of Minimal Sculpture
The Jewish Museum will host an evening roundtable discussion on Thursday, June 19, in connection with Other Primary Structures [http://engine.nectarads.com/r?e=eyJhdiI6NjY1NzksImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjEyMTgyMSwiY2giOjE5MzAsImNyIjozNTI4NjksImRtIjo0LCJmYyI6NDM2NDk2LCJmbCI6MjIxNjU2LCJudyI6MjA3LCJwYyI6MCwicHIi
Opinion
Is iPhone Photography Getting Better?
When most people think of iPhone photography, they think of Instagram. But not everybody is enamored with the popular app: namely, some professional photographers.
Books
Dali, Warhol, and Pollock: This Is Your Life
A new graphic biography series launched last month with books that follow the lives of Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Salvador Dalí in text and illustration.
Art
Soccer in Ancient Times (and Art)
In 1977, Brazilian soccer star Pelé posed for Andy Warhol, who snapped a photo to use in the creation of one of his iconic screenprints. But Pelé didn’t need Warhol to immortalize him; he was already arguably the greatest player in the world’s most popular sport.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, art market boom thoughts, women ignoring men in art, press freedoms in the US, emotions of fonts, displacement as translation, reconstructing Le Corbusier's Maison Dom-Ino in Venice, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Tea
This week, the Tea Party reared its ugly head and Eric Cantor is singing the blues.
Books
Genet Redux: On Chris Tysh’s 'Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic'
Chris Tysh’s Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic is, as the title suggests, a revision, or better yet, a re-sounding, a twenty-first century echo of Jean Genet’s transgressive and groundbreaking debut novel Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, which he drafted in prison in 1942 and framed as a kind of playful, metafi
Art
Joyce Robins’s Subtly Colored, Imageless Objects
In an interview that appeared last month in The Brooklyn Rail, Joyce Robins, while addressing the relationship between abstraction and representation, pointed out: “’Vly’ is a Dutch word for swamp.”