Art
Germany's Farewell to Coal: Artists Reflect on a Dying Industry
In Art & Coal, a major exhibition in Germany's Ruhr region, artists explore the 900-year-old culture of coal-mining as the country's last two mines prepare to close.
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Art
Drawings of Daily Resistance from the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Delaware Art Museum is exhibiting a series of drawings by Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman of the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Art
Sculpt the World in the First Nintendo Game Developed by an African Studio
The video game Semblance by the South Africa-based Nyamakop studio has players reshaping a malleable digital world before it petrifies.
News
You Can Now Own a Genuine Work of Art by a Panda — If You Have $570
Yang Yang is creating 100 black and white paintings to raise funds for a book on the Vienna Zoo's panda population.
News
Anthony Scaramucci Plugs Musical Parodying Trump's Family Fracas
The former White House Director of Communications holds his second-ever press conference, but it's for a new Off-Broadway musical lampooning the Trump family.
Art
A Utopia of Yugoslav Architecture at MoMA
Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 introduces audiences to a bold modernist tradition forged by radical, multi-ethnic communities with utopic, collective ambitions.
Books
A Photographer Focuses on Transhumanism
Showcasing transformational changes in the ways we view our bodies and the possibilities for hybridizing them, Matthieu Gasfou's H+: Transhumanism(s) is both a historical document and a possible warning for the future.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Okwui Enwezor on leaving Germany, #MeToo in museums, the aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois, British mosques, criticizing Avital Ronell, and more.
Books
Connoisseurship Is Not a Dirty Word
Connoisseurship, it is often said, is elitist, Euro-centric, and logo-centric, to employ the fashionable jargon.
Poetry
Recollections of William Corbett
Poet, editor, and art critic William Corbett passed away on August 10th.
Books
What Is a Poet?
Deeply suspicious of anything that smacks of self-importance, of making a blanket statement or pronouncement, Clark Coolidge resists nailing down what the poet and poem are.
Art
Something Happened in DC
Or did it?