Art
A Doodler Who Taught Himself to Paint
It’s hard not to get the feeling that Chuck Boyce is learning by doing, while, at the same time, making it up as he goes along.
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Help Solve a Global Crisis Through an Online Puzzle
Since 2008, the Foldit game has engaged the public in solving puzzles for science. Now it's tackling crop contamination.
Film
The First Animation Is Film Festival Showcases the Best of Today's Animation
The festival presents exceptional films in all styles of animation, from anime to stop-motion.
Books
Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models Let You Build the Miniature Guggenheim of Your Dreams
With Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models by Marc Hagan-Guirey, you can build tiny models of Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, and Taliesin West.
Books
Photobooks Designed to Treat Dementia Gently Challenge the Mind
By pairing unrelated images that share surprising similarities, Photographic Treatment by Laurence Aëgerter encourages dementia patients to make their own connections between them, stimulating mental activity.
Books
The 1960s Photographer Who Documented the Peace Sign as a Political Symbol
Jim Marshall photographed the spread of the peace sign between 1961 and 1968, with his images now published for the first time by Reel Art Press.
Art
How an Artist's Activism Nurtured His Painting
This exhibition is a ten-year survey concentrating on Peter Krashes's paintings that emerged in an almost symbiotic relationship with his political involvement as a community organizer.
Art
An Artist Reimagines His Ancestors Through Costumed Self-Portraits
What separates Ken Gonzales-Day’s exhibition Bone-Grass Boy from the mass of artwork addressing the politics of representation is its investment in intimate autobiography.
Books
Photographing the Strange Normalcy of Israel's Ubiquitous Bomb Shelters
For Architecture of an Existential Threat, Adam Reynolds spent three years photographing some of Israel's 1 million bomb shelters.
Art
Sanford Biggers Summons the Power of Deep Music
Biggers's current exhibition at Marianne Boesky gallery, Selah, taps into something deeply powerful and ancestral.
Art
A Hidden Flaneur Who Records the Minutiae of Street Life
Mikiko Hara made a conscious decision to discard reliance on the viewfinder, which led to a body of work that is true to her intention to capture street life as a continuous process.
Art
At Storm King, a Half-Buried Roof Shelters Oral Histories
Heather Hart's "The Oracle of Lacuna" creates spaces for communal exploration of little-known regional oral histories.