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The Watercolour World Documents the Planet Before Photography
The initiative has already digitized 80,000 images, categorized and made searchable to the public.
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Art
Examining the Underbelly of US Culture: Gun Violence, White Supremacy, and Greed
Sandow Birk’s investigation of US culture and politics is unusual in that its own explicit politics are not overly didactic — a difficult line to walk successfully.
Film
An Intimately Filmed Portrait of a Willfully Fragmented and Mutable Persona
GLUE is a 50-minute portrait of the director Oisín Byrne’s friend and longtime collaborator, a quick-witted and acid-tongued cross-dresser who refuses to adhere to a fixed identity.
Community
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in California, New York, and the United Kingdom.
Film
Velvet Buzzsaw Hacks Through Every Art World Cliché
That writer and director Dan Gilroy tackles a subject so incredibly ripe for mockery but goes for the easiest, most tired clichés is quite disappointing.
News
Week in Review: Finding Leonardo’s Fingerprint, Iraq’s Mosul Museum Reopens
Also, Charline von Heyl exhibition extended after government shutdown, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has apologized to Dr. Angela Y. Davis and more.
In Brief
EU Official Demands Luxembourg Freeport Close Amid Money Laundering Allegations
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has referred the case, which concerns a high-security facility housing art and luxury goods, to the European commissioner of economic and financial affairs.
Art
Why Mark di Suvero Chose Public Art
The artist shares why he would rather place his art outdoors than in an institution.
Books
A Colossal Mural Chronicles 375 Million Years of Bird Evolution
Artist Jane Kim painted a 2,500 square-foot "Wall of Birds" mural at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York.
News
An Auction Record for Work by a Pre-Modern Woman Artist, and Museum of Modern Art Receives 800 Drawings
Plus, the complete archive of Supreme skate decks sells for $800,000, and Yayoi Kusama breaks another auction record.
News
A 40-Year Initiative Brings the Art of Maximum-Security Prisoners to the Museum
"Those capable of the worst are capable of the best," says curator Jeffrey Greene. "Anyone can be an artist."
Art
In 1972, Snow Monkeys Were Sent to a Texas Desert. Do They Still Remember Snow?
Curious if the monkeys' memory of snow remained decades later, artist Shimabuku brought a pile of it to the desert.