Books
The Playful Yet Sobering Anti-Alcohol Posters of the Soviet Union
A new book from Fuel features previously unpublished anti-alcohol posters from the 1960s to '80s in the Soviet Union.
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Art
Clay Vessels Pay Tribute to the Plastic Water Bottle
Jami Porter Lara's slick, black sculptures, currently on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, reframe how we see the ubiquitous plastic water bottle.
Art
Landscape Art that Depicts More Than Nature
The artist’s depiction of landscape is a subjective experience of the outdoors, a cultural and psychological construct.
Art
Casting New York City's Oldest Tree in Luminous Glass
Artist Rachel Owens made casts of the Alley Pond Giant, the oldest living thing in New York City, and fused them with a rainbow of glass shards.
Art
A Trove of Early Japanese Animated Films Is Now Online
To celebrate the centennial of Japanese animation, the National Film Center of Japan recently uploaded over 60 films made between 1917 and 1941.
Art
Photographs Made with the Ocean Capture Its Swirling Rhythms
Despite these works’ affinity with painting, Meghann Riepenhoff shares her method with some of the earliest technical photographs ever made.
Art
The Digital Decline of David Hockney
The epic heights he reached in the 1960s are apparently so magnificent that they have given him a free pass ever since.
Books
100 Years of People Knitting
A book published by Princeton Architectural Press gathers vintage photographs of people knitting, from Sojourner Truth to unidentified nudists.
Art
A Buenos Aires Museum Creates a New Lexicon for Latin American Art
The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires has reorganized its permanent collection, assigning a new context for 20th-century Latin American art and its movements.
Art
Documenting Signs of Life Around an Israeli Detention Facility
An exhibition at the Israel Museum brings together the photographs and videos that Ron Amir made over three years in the desert surrounding the Holot Detention Facility.
Books
How Pirate and Parrot (Mis)Understand One Another
Eugene Ostashevsky is a father of two young daughters and a fan of Dr. Seuss, and he no longer thinks it is “possible to write anything serious that is not funny.”
Art
Anoka Faruqee’s Dance of Matter and Light
For an artist known for her flawless alignments (or deliberate misalignments) of overlapping wave patterns to achieve a memorable optical effect, the inclusion of “bruises” seems a bold and unexpected move.