Art
Finding a Spiritual Haven in Digital Culture
MEXICO CITY — For the first time in Latin America, New York-based Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai’s immersive video work and sculptures are on view, and in a uniquely intimate setting.
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The Immortal Deer an Artist Set Loose in Grand Theft Auto
I’ve never played Grand Theft Auto (GTA), but I have spent a decent amount of time watching a hacked — or, rather, “modded” — deer running through the GTA V live game, and I think this deer has something to tell us.
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Overlooking the Port of LA, an Exhibit Considers Sustainability
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The exhibition gestures to the land and sea present in the artistic imaginary of San Pedro, where viewers get to take in “reimagined vehicles wobbling across scrutinized infrastructure.”
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A Public Display of Our Private Belongings
MINNEAPOLIS — On my first visit to Emmett Ramstad’s Touching Each Other exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), I completely missed the pubic hair.
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An Indoor Forest Where a Massive Head Waits in the Water
The first sensation visitors to Anima at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn experience is disorientation, as they walk through a dark tunnel made from scraps of wood that seem pulled together by a vortex.
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Using Cameras to Commune with Nature
Without being heavy handed, Tegg’s exhibition reminds us that this connection to the animal kingdom (of which we are a part) is integral to our survival, at least for as long as we require bodies to function in the physical world.
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A Tribute to New York's Wilting Flower District
If cities had such things as official botanicals, New York City's might be the flower bouquet.
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The Indefatigable Curiosity of Norman Lewis
PHILADELPHIA — While teaching at Jefferson School of the Social Sciences in New York around 1949, Norman Lewis began to draft an artist’s treatise in which he laid out his teaching theories, and, more intriguingly, his ideas about the role an artist should play in society.
Books
A Rabid and Neurotic Worldview in a Suffocating Graphic Novel
Providence, Rhode Island-based multi-hyphenate Brian Chippendale is best known as the masked drummer and howling vocalist of noise-rock duo Lightning Bolt. He’s also a RISD dropout, cartoonist, and artist.
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Visually Mining the History of Guano Off the Coast of Peru
In the mid-19th century, the Chincha Islands were at the center of a now-forgotten resource war that involved major world powers.
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Reader's Diary: Mary Mothersill's ‘Beauty Restored’
Last summer I found this copy of a book I’d long been curious about on the “discard” shelves of the East Hampton Library.
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Fresh Geometry: Gary Stephan and Alina Tenser
You know something is going on when you stare at work hanging on one wall and forget to look at what is on the gallery’s other three walls.