Art
An Ominous Score for Antarctica's Collapsing Glaciers
In downtown Chicago, the artist duo Luftwerk has created a public sound piece that evokes the calving of Antartica's Larsen C ice shelf.
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Giant Cuttlefish Make Sweet Love in New York's City Hall Park
Katja Novitskova has unleashed enlarged and playfully juxtaposed scientific images throughout the Lower Manhattan park.
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Stanley Twardowicz, a Neglected Minor Master
The unsung Abstract Expressionist wanted his paintings to show none of the effort he put into making them.
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Rosalyn Drexler Does Not Look Back
Since the 1960s, Drexler has continued to make powerful art and to go her own way.
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An Artist Who Conveys Messages from the Dead
Self-taught artist George Kornegay created found-object environments for communing with the spirit world.
Film
A Spectacle of Fables and Fascism
In a new documentary, Tuscan townspeople turn the crises of their lives into the stuff of drama.
Books
When a Poem's Wrongness Is Right
The leap between image and utterance in Anthony Madrid's poetry is the challenge and, sometimes, the delight.
Books
The Surrealist Satire of Leonora Carrington
These stunningly strange, arrestingly intellectual constructs treat the human imagination with humor and forgiveness.
Art
The Passion and Pain of Carol Rama
Rama's paintings confront us with empowered female sexuality and insanity.
Art
Tend to Your Goats as the Apocalypse Approaches in This Meditative Game
Where The Goats Are starts as an idyllic farming game, but the horrors of the post-apocalyptic setting can't be ignored.
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Artist Turns Police Cruiser into a Tribute to Law & Order Detective Lennie Briscoe
For "ORBACH1," Brandon Bird transformed a formerly black 2008 police cruiser found on Craigslist into an airbrushed rolling masterpiece commemorating his hero.
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What We Lose and Gain in Recreating Antiquities
In his exhibition at at Galeria Mascota, Miguel Angel Salazar revives a cenotaph, showing that it's both easier than ever to rewrite history, and more difficult to erase it.