Art
Mel Chin Submerges Times Square in a Post-Apocalyptic Future
This Wednesday, Mel Chin takes over Times Square as part of his multi-location, interactive art exhibit that includes an animatronic sculpture and a mixed-reality experience.
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Art
A Painter Illustrates the Charm and Tragedy of the American Dream
Esther Pearl Watson's personal paintings depict the life and adventures of a family rich in dreams but perpetually strapped for cash.
Art
Encountering Christo’s Massive Sculpture on the Serpentine Lake
Christo's giant floating sculpture, "The London Mastaba," sits on the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park as tourists on paddle boats circle around.
Announcement
San Francisco Art Book Fair Kicks Off Its Third Year This July
The Bay Area art book fair runs Friday, July 20th through Sunday, July 22nd at Minnesota Street Project (MSP). Admission is free.
Art
How Our Conversations Around Mixed-Race Identity Have Evolved in the 21st Century
A project illustrates how the explosion of the internet has allowed for a more involved, varied, and purposeful construction of one's identity.
Comics
Awkward Social Encounters at Art Openings
It's a minefield and you're never prepared.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Ernesto Neto's new crocheted tree, reviewing Picasso in 1932, considering the park around Eero Saarinen's famous arch, the reality of open office plans, Hannah Arendt on refugees, social media happiness, and more.
Music
A Talking Heads Album, Forty Years Later
More Songs About Buildings and Food, a concept album about late capitalism, speaks with disarming directness to the current political moment.
Books
Sweet, Gritty, Impossible Naples
The other great centers of the Italian art world – Florence, Rome, and Venice – have modernized; Naples mostly has not.
Books
Cuba at the Cusp
The images that foreshadow the turmoil of the Cuban Revolution jar you back to the precariousness of our times.
Art
The Stain on Our Flag
We thought humans had evolved.
Art
Revisiting the Legacy of Women at Black Mountain College
The school's loosely structured pedagogical model allowed women to play vital roles throughout Black Mountain's brief history.