Art
The Sensuous Immersion of Fluxus Sound Art
FluZUsic/FLUXUS MUSIC at Bob Rauschenberg Gallery is a sweeping, interactive presentation of artwork, instruments, and compositions.
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Art
Generate Medieval City Maps with This Online Tool
The Medieval Fantasy City Generator is an online application that endlessly generates random medieval city maps.
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A Dreamy Carnival at the Children’s Museum in Harlem
Derek Fordjour’s impish and touching installation is so chock-a-block with the minute details of Fordjour’s making that I feel I’m inhabiting his dreamscape
Books
A Portrait of an 18th-Century Hermit as Both Man and Myth
Amani Willett's The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer uses photography, archival material, and found objects to retrace the story of an 18th-century hermit.
Books
Street-Level Photographs Capture the Citizens and Signage of Postwar NYC
The new book I See a City chronicles the 1940s and '50s street photography of Todd Webb, who documented postwar New York City.
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A Sculptor’s Prescient Portrait of Zimbabwean Youth
For Terrence Musekiwa, Zimbabwe's tumultuous state of affairs provided the impetus for his figures, which are collectively named “the youth of today.”
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Photographers Document the Mutilation of Redwood Trees by Poachers
For Live Burls: Poaching the Redwoods, photographers Kirk Crippens and Gretchen LeMaistre documented the rampant theft of redwood burls in California.
Books
Glowing Photographs of East and West Divided by the Iron Curtain
East/West features Harry Gruyaert's photographs of Moscow, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas in the 1980s, each saturated with Kodachrome colors.
Art
A Trio of Political Photographs Rendered in Lint
History is never objective and our relationship to the narrative is often deeply personal.
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The Surprising Eloquence of Mass-Produced Materials
Jessica Vaughn's show of restrained conceptual works subtly evokes the experiential dimension of mass-produced objects.
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Measuring the Worth of Renaissance Art in Cows
Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the cost of a cow to consider the worth of 16th-century objects.
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Toward an Invisible Architecture
A pioneer of electronic sculptural art, Juan Downey made a splash in 1960s and '70s New York when he rigorously critiqued Eurocentric views of Latin American identity.