Art
Take On the Challenge of Abstract Painting Puzzles in this Mobile Game
Art Club Challenge by Jarryd Huntley aims to make art more approachable through its Mondrian-inspired painting puzzles.
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Art
Taking A Millennial Approach at Brooklyn College's MFA Spring 2018 Thesis Show
Featuring 13 artists, this MFA exhibition is a more intimate affair than the others I've seen, and much of the work unapologetically indulges in pop culture commentary, dating apps, and the guy in the White House.
Community
A View from the Easel
This time, we take a look at artist studios in California, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, and Hong Kong.
Books
An Early 19th-Century Flower Painter's Guide to Identifying Colors of the Natural World
Published in 1814 by a Scottish flower painter, 'Werner's Nomenclature of Colours' was one of the world's first systemic taxonomy of colors.
Art
Highlights of the Queer Biennial, from a Textile Exhibition to a Tom of Finland Screening
This year's theme "What if Utopia" challenges participants to consider the myriad possibilities of what an ideal world might look like.
Comics
The Distance Between the Art Our Brains Imagine and Our Hands Produce
The longer artists keep at it, the shorter the distance gets.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Lorna Simpson collages, two very different stories about Saudi art, the politics of photo sharing, Dia:Beacon satire, Detroit Techno history, Trump as Charlie Brown, and more.
Art
David Bowie, the Nobel Prize, and Panic in Stockholm
The current drama around the Swedish Academy has reached Shakespearian proportions, and might even flip the way we look at contemporary culture.
Art
Natalie Frank's Fairy Tale for Adults Only
Her drawings of animals and people in costume give insight into the darker side of human lust and longing.
Art
Nathaniel Robinson Questions America’s Feckless Policies
Robinson picks subjects for his sculptures that are disposable and forlorn, belonging to no one.
Art
Making Prison Great Again
The Congress turns against him. He refuses to resign.
Music
Two Sprawling and Disorderly Trap Albums
Migos and Rae Sremmurd streamline voguish rap conventions into digestible product.