Art
A Brief History of the "I Voted" Sticker
Who designed the first sticker? And does anyone care about it anymore?
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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.
Art
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.
Comics
The History of American Landscape Painting Is Not Pretty
The country's most famous landscape painters pushed the idea of Manifest Destiny. Is there a better way to inspire people with landscape painting today?
News
Ronald Lauder Pours Millions Into Lee Zeldin’s Campaign
Are you going to let him win?
Art
Kei Ito Traces Tragedy and Mourning
Ito's rubbings and multimedia works are traces of a global tragedy still imprinted in the memories of Americans more than two decades later.
News
Art in the Workplace Improves Employee Well-Being, Study Finds
More than 40% of those surveyed agreed that their workplace was “designed poorly.”
Art
Istanbul Biennial Asks, Can We Talk?
Spread across a dozen venues, with 500 contributors from almost 30 nations, the Biennial aims to draw in a public estranged by politics and two years of pandemic lockdowns.
Art
Two Artist-Physicians Address the Impacts of Uranium Mining
Chip Thomas and Ken Ogawa are creating sight and sound installations to raise awareness about ecological devastation and injustice.