Performance
Bruno Latour’s Final Performance on the Climate Crisis Serves More Questions Than Answers
The Terrestrial Trilogy shows how we can — and perhaps cannot — talk about pressing human and environmental emergencies.
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News
Child Who Lived 8,000 Years Ago May Have Been Buried With a Wolf
Archaeologists excavated the burial site in eastern Finland, shedding light on Stone Age funerary practices.
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Getty Trust Pledges $1M to Conserve Ukrainian Cultural Heritage
The funds will support on-site conservation, packing and storing, and even salaries for Ukrainian heritage professionals.
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Vandals Who Graffitied Petroglyphs in Nevada Sent to Prison
The White River Narrows rock art is considered sacred by Native American peoples in the region.
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New Online Database Tracks the Whereabouts of the Benin Bronzes
Digital Benin contains data from about 5,246 objects scattered across 131 institutions in 20 countries.
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Artists in Battleground States Share Their Thoughts on the Midterms
From Georgia to Arizona, from Nevada to New York, we asked artists in nine states to share urgent issues and reflections ahead of Election Day.
Art
A Brief History of the "I Voted" Sticker
Who designed the first sticker? And does anyone care about it anymore?
Art
Did a Children’s Cartoon Predict the Upside-Down Mondrian Blooper?
Binky the “art expert” showed us how to correctly hang a Piet Mondrian painting in an episode of Arthur more than two decades ago.
Art
Carnival and Colonialism Converge in Hew Locke's The Procession
Locke's stunning, sensuous spectacle of pattern and color, just like the grand tradition of Caribbean carnivals, hints at sinister elements that undergird the whole endeavor.
Art
An Artist's Quest to Decolonize Southern California's Water Supply
With The Metabolic Studio, artist Lauren Bon views her work as an act of reparation, an attempt to reverse the colonization of Southern California.
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One City Is Making Its Waterfront Interactive
Canal Convergence, 10 years strong, brings large-scale interactive artworks to Scottsdale, Arizona’s waterfront.
Books
The Shadowy Past of San Francisco
Mimi Plumb's photos of 1980s and ’90s San Francisco look at the dissonance between an expanding metropolis and its surrounding environment.