Art
The Experimental Laboratory of Artist-Inventor Carl Cheng
Cheng is equal parts inventor and artist, breaking both technological and cultural ground as a Chinese-American artist.
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Fiona Connor’s Portals Into Closed-Down Clubs
Connor creates a simulacrum of closed-down businesses she would frequent or come across in Los Angeles, New York City, and New Zealand.
Art
Artists Go DIY in the Desert
A tight-knit community of art entrepreneurs in Albuquerque launched their businesses in the wake of the pandemic.
News
Pompeii Heats Up With a New Exhibition of Erotic Art
The show encompasses 70 works from the archeological site’s vast troves, including the famous "Leda and the Swan" fresco recovered in 2018.
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A Church-Turned-Skate Park in St. Louis Is Raising Funds for an Arts Center
Sk8 Liborius, which has run the space since 2012, wants to turn it into an arts hub for under-resourced youth.
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Taylor Swift Now Has a Millipede Named After Her
If you spot this little guy crawling on you, just stay calm and shake it off, shake it off!
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UAE Sentenced a Palestinian Artist to Death for Drug Possession
The artist maintains she was framed after an Emirati police search found half a kilogram of cocaine in her Dubai apartment.
Announcement
Acquavella Galleries Presents Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes
Curated by Todd Bradway and presented concurrently at Acquavella’s NYC and Palm Beach locations, this group exhibition features landscape paintings by 28 contemporary artists.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a rare fossil is discovered, a new book on artist Niki de Saint Phalle is published, the erasure of women philosophers continues, a culinary map of China, and much more.
Art
Gloria Graham Records the Movement of the Earth
Graham is inspired by science and draws on her deep knowledge of it, which ranges from chemistry and molecular structures to botany.
Art
Wendy Red Star's Empowered Vision of Crow History
One of Red Star’s many strengths is her ability to examine both the past and what’s still to come.
Podcast
Tamara Lanier's Fight for the Photographs of Her Enslaved Ancestors at Harvard
In this episode of the Hyperallergic podcast, Lanier talks about her continuing quest for justice that includes the return of the daguerreotypes depicting her enslaved ancestors.