Books
On the Origin of Emoji
A new book published by Prestel explores the history of emoji and its rise as a global communication phenomenon.
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Art
What Central Africa's War on Poaching Can Teach Us About Fighting the Plunder of Antiquities
Calls for greater law enforcement efforts to fight antiquities trafficking have been growing ever since ISIS' profiteering from the trade in looted antiquities became public knowledge in 2014. Two years later, concrete steps are finally being taken.
Art
Paint Flows Over a Rockaway Ruin Like Hurricane Waves
One of the most remarkable places accessible to the public in New York City is the ruins of the Fort Tilden military base on the Rockaway Peninsula, where huge batteries with now-empty heavy gun turrets open to the beach.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Ridley Howard
I fell in love with Ridley Howard’s painting when I saw his 2014 exhibition at Koenig & Clinton Gallery. The show, as a whole, created a world that one rarely sees in contemporary art: romantic, refined, delicate, and impeccably crafted.
Art
John Crawford’s Heavy Metal: Forging Meaning from Pure Form
About two years ago, while doing my research rounds, I stumbled into an exhibition of mostly forged-metal sculptures by the American artist John Crawford at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in Manhattan’s Chelsea district.
Art
From Flint with Love, Art of the African Diaspora
Unlike many notable private art collections that serve the public good only after they have been donated to a museum (or turned into museums of their own), the Mott-Warsh Collection was conceived to fulfill a larger social purpose.
Art
Navigating the Recent Wave of Renegade Seafaring in Art
WATER MILL, NY — On the same day the Apollo 11 Lunar Module touched down on the Moon, an art collective in Japan was rowing on a giant white arrow down the rivers between Kyoto and Osaka.
Art
Navigating the Recent Wave of Renegade Seafaring in Art
WATER MILL, NY — On the same day the Apollo 11 Lunar Module touched down on the Moon, an art collective in Japan was rowing on a giant white arrow down the rivers between Kyoto and Osaka.
Art
Making Visible the Haunting Absences of Latin America’s Violent History
It has become a common refrain to say we've become desensitized to images of war, bloodshed, and poverty.
Art
Making Visible the Haunting Absences of Latin America’s Violent History
It has become a common refrain to say we've become desensitized to images of war, bloodshed, and poverty.
Books
Sick of Being Human, a Designer Transformed Himself into a Goat
What if you could escape the pains of daily existence by transforming into a goat?
News
Performers in ICA Miami Show Claim They Were Pressured to Penetrate Themselves with Rope
In Laura Lima's current exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Miami — the Brazilian artist's first solo museum show in the US — a braided, blue industrial nylon rope snakes through the building's massive atrium, crawling over its white columns and beams to form an imposing, tangled w