Art
A New Documentary Lays Bare the Gender Bias in Comics
CHICAGO — Why is it that comics continue to be read mostly as a white, heterosexual, and masculine medium when that's clearly, totally, not at all the case?
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Celebrating Female Game Designers
While a recent report showed that almost half of those who play video games are women, the representation of women in game design is much lower. To increase female visibility, and in the hopes of encouraging would-be designers, the Museum of Design Atlanta is hosting the first exhibition on women as
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Documenting China's Burgeoning Bra Industry
CHICAGO — There's a 50 square mile area in China between Chendian Town, Chaonan and Gurao Town where most of the brassieres in the world are produced. It is with fascination and awareness of this global market that artist Priscilla Briggs embarked upon her photo series The Road to Shantou to tell a
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Digital Repatriation Through an Aboriginal Art Archive
Artifacts in museums — in an effort for preservation — are often placed out of reach of the communities with which they are entwined. One way museums are bridging this divide is digitization, and with this purpose in mind, the South Australian Museum is currently undertaking a massive project to pho
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An Art CSA Grows in Brooklyn
Community-supported agriculture (CSA) has long been a fixture of many of the more enlightened communities in the United States. By selling "shares" of a season's crop ahead of time, the practice generates a predictable income and demand for agricultural products, allowing many smaller-scale farmers
Art
Using Skateboard Culture to Preserve a Native Art Form
Keeping an art form relevant to the next generation is essential for its survival, and a skateboard company in Juneau, Alaska, is using the Native formline art of the Northwest Coast to both celebrate this cultural tradition and create some sweet decks.
Interview
The Formative Formlessness of Cora Cohen
When Cora Cohen needed help in her studio, a mutual friend recommended she call me. The job started by looking and talking about her art. There were clashes. We have different and similar approaches to painting.
Opinion
US National Intelligence Is Now on Tumblr
If you follow the news these days, you might be worried about the American government and the secrecy and ruthlessness with which it has been conducting itself. You might be concerned about the National Security Agency (NSA) reading your email, or dismayed by Bradley Manning's 35-year sentence, or h
Opinion
The New Baghdad Library Looks Suspiciously Familiar
Centuries before the British Mandate and the Butcher of Baghdad, today's ravaged Iraqi capital was thriving as the largest city in the world. According to The Art Newspaper, a new master plan spearheaded by the Iraqi Ministry of Youth and Sport is aiming to tap into this historical legacy with some
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Stolen Shot "Wins" Samsung Photo Contest
Samsung's #LiveInTheMoment Instagram photo contest has been mired in controversy since a winning photograph was discovered to be the image of another photographer that was altered by flipping, cropping, and adding a filter.
Interview
Drawing the Grotesque Violence of Daily Life in Juárez
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Raúl Gonzalez was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up going back and forth between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, México. Juárez was, for a time, one of the most violent cities in the world. Drug cartel violence killed thousands while hundreds of women were abducted and murdered, or
Books
Cahiers d'Art: A Paris Review for Visual Art?
Staffan Ahrenberg's acquisition of Cahiers d'Art a few years ago was a nostalgic purchase. Ahrenberg, the scion of a prominent Swedish collecting family, had his memory jogged on a walk past the publication's offices in Paris, and recalled seeing its founder's name, Christian Zervos, amid the spines