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The Little-Known Engineer Who Made the First Abstract Paintings in the US
MUSKEGON, Mich. — What’s especially significant about Manierre Dawson is that he made his breakthrough to non-objective imagery prior to any exposure to modernist art.
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Wanted: One Corpse for Art
When a person dies, his loved ones typically deliver the body to a morgue before it reaches the final destination; Icelandic artist Snorri Ásmundsson is requesting that someone take a detour on that route to participate in his art.
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Offer Dueling Accounts of Detroit's Industrial Glory
DETROIT — The Detroit Institute of Arts’s major exhibition Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit closes on Sunday. This show was in the works for a decade, long before the city’s bankruptcy and the grand bargain, which shifted the ownership of the art from the city to the museum.
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Subversive Zines and Local Lore at Lima’s First Independent Book Fair
LIMA, Peru — In early July, Lima's first independent book fair took place in the municipal square of Barranco, a neighborhood brimming with young artists on pastel-colored bikes and covered in street art that mixes aerosol graffiti with Peruvian patterns and iconography.
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The Postminimal Zen of Boxed-Up Noguchis
If you visit the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City this summer, someone at the front desk will let you know that the institution is currently undergoing renovation and they regret that all the art in the garden is temporarily off view.
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From Cum Shots to Orgasmic GIFs, a Playful Take on Virtual Sex
Faith Holland’s show TECHNOPHILIA at Transfer Gallery left me wanting more, kind of like I imagine a good dick pic would.
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Commemorating the Civil War with Brooklyn's Buried Dead
For 13 years, volunteers at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery scoured its archives for internments related to the US Civil War, whether soldier or civilian.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a chance to see pioneering body-based video art from the 1990s, an artist builds an adobe structure at LACE, the #USC7 get their own show, and more.
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Can You Solve These Early 20th-Century Newspaper Puzzles?
Better known for his realist paintings of New York City street life, Ashcan School artist John Sloan was also a master of visual mind-bending.
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China’s Young Postmodern, Post-Mao Artists
LOS ANGELES — Jin Shan was 12 when the student-led Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 rocked China, eliciting a brutal and unprecedented military response.
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ArtRx NYC
Learn about the long history of activist graphic design in New York, pick up zines by its contemporary practitioners, and read them while you ride a vintage 1940s city bus around Governors Island.
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A 19th-Century Paper Mill Transformed into a Space for Art
PLAINWELL, Mich. — In Sarah Lindley's current installation at the historic Plainwell Paper Mill Company in southwestern Michigan, she traces the watershed of the Kalamazoo River.