Art

Art

The Postmodern Political Art of 1990s Mexico City

PHILADELPHIA — In the wake of major governmental ineffectiveness following a massive earthquake in 1985, artists in Mexico City began building a vibrant DIY arts movement and searching for less traditional modes of expression.

Art

Digital Distractions: Designing a Subway and Pruning a Tree

For December, we've got a psychedelic plane ride tribute to a man who died in a crash, a paper craft city, subway line design, and tree pruning (it's fun!).

Art

The LSD-Inspired Photographs of a Salvador Dalí Protégé

For three months in 1964, a couple of years before Timothy Leary advised the masses to “turn on, tune in, drop out,” California-born artist Steven Arnold lived on the small island of Formentera, off the coast of Spain.

Art

Utopian Mirror Ball Sculptures at Paris Climate Conference Are Full of Hot Air

PARIS — The balls of Aerocene hang high above Solutions COP21, floating over ecocidal disaster-mongers as they sleepwalk visitors towards a total surveillance state.

Art

A Taste of Four Decades on the Fringes of Animation

A lonely pink figure walking down a shadowy track amidst glowing neon shapes is a poignant moment in Brian Smee's "Sports" (2014). The scene also serves as an allegory for the genre of experimental animation.

Art

ArtRx LA

LOS ANGELES — This week, Union Station hosts a screening of classic LA film Killer of Sheep, Art + Practice opens a show of new work from assemblage art pioneer John Outterbridge, Charles Gaines sets political speeches to music at REDCAT, and more.

Art

On Staten Island, an Artist Floats New Ideas for Life Jackets

Surfing along New York Harbor on the Staten Island Ferry, a fairly tranquil experience were it not for the tourists snapchatting the Statue of Liberty, can still cause a bit of anxiety.

Art

The Female Body Concealed and Revealed with Minimal Marks

CHICAGO — In a show of works on paper at a new Chicago artist-run space, Cultivator, painter Anne Harris depicts the female body in a way that brings to mind writer Christine Alic’s phrase “the contested landscape of the female gaze.”

Art

ArtRx NYC

This week is a big one for poetry, with events celebrating John Ashbery, Claudia Rankine, and Ugly Duckling Presse. If that's not enough, try some openings.

Art

Documenting the Peculiarities of an Early-20th-Century Roman Department Store

There's one place you shouldn’t miss when visiting Rome. It's neither the Colosseum nor St. Peter’s Basilica.

Art

The 19th-Century Affordable Artworks That Were the Original Carnival Game Prizes

MEMPHIS — Chalkware was one of the earliest affordable arts available to a large population in the United States.

Art

Folded and Fragmented Drawings of the Natural World

WASHINGTON, DC — The everyday organisms of our natural world become mysterious and illusory in the drawings of Beverly Ress.