Art
Required Reading
This week, Soul of a Nation in Arkansas, "female monsters" in art, new "golden age" of black painting, trends at Milan Design Week, Zaha Hadid's only built house is complete, and more.
Required Reading
Art
Required Reading
This week, reviewing Civilizations, conserving Edgar Degas's tutus, tech's "disruption" of photography, Facebook's long history of apologies, architects and designers championing afrofutrism, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, reviewing Art in the Age of the Internet, Colonial Californiano architecture, the boy in Diane Arbus’s "Child With A Toy Hand Grenade" photograph, the winners of Smithsonian's photo contest, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, horizontal skyscrapers, Facebook's Cambridge Analytica meltdown, living in a masterpiece, death tribute cartoons, the politics of Google Maps, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, National Geographic's racist past, reviewing Surrealism in Egypt, the best museum in the world, FBI surveillance of black bookstores, Portugal's role in introducing tempura to Japan, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a new self-driving car, Kara Walker in New Orleans, #MeToo in the art and architecture worlds, the death of a historic Greenwich Village building, a gallerist quits art fairs, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, viral photo of the SpaceX launch, art and tech's complicity, Thomas Heatherwick's "The Vessel," travel in the age of Instagram, drone fashion models, the Las Vegas painting with a cult following, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, in praise of negative reviews, the tallest building ever to be demolished, the queer history of Ancient Egypt, hiding the history of the Midwest’s mysterious mound cities, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the Obama portraits, Fortuny in Madrid, the precarious lives of independent curators, slavery at US colleges, the information apocalypse, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Ellsworth Kelly's new Texas chapel, visiting the Trump border wall prototypes, woke in Arkansas, whitesplaining the Classics, drones at the Olympics, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Louvre's Nazi loot, gender imbalance in the art world, Linda Nochlin and the female gaze, Amazon's welfare scam, the future of Canadian art catalogues, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the feud between Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, Hank Willis Thomas's Guernica, what Google did with your selfie, fake social media followers, Arthur Miller's defense of the NEA, and more.