Art
Listening to Anonymous Confessions in an Art Gallery
In a project by Gideon Jacobs and Gregor Hochmuth, visitors to Deli Gallery can pick up a phone and hear the confessions of strangers.
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Art
50 Years of Celebrating, and Saving, Artist-Built Environments
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is hosting a yearlong series of exhibitions marking their 50th year celebrating, and saving, art environments.
Art
Ettore Sottsass's Candy-Colored Utopian Design
The Met Breuer's exhibition makes the case that it wasn’t just an aesthetic Sottsass unleashed on the world, but a particular way of interpreting the past and imagining the future.
Art
English Translations of Obscure Medieval Texts Go Online
Stanford University's Global Medieval Sourcebook is a new online compendium of English translations for overlooked Middle Ages texts.
Art
The Futile Effort of Differentiating Fine Art from Design
The Useful and the Decorative at the Landing explores the relationship between fine art and design, and how the lines blur between them.
Film
A Film About Falling in Love and Geeking Out About Modernism
Set in the eponymous Indiana town, Kogonada's Columbus is a film about architecture with an Asian American aesthetic.
Books
Two Comics Artists Draw Their Ways Through Depression
New books by Keiler Roberts and Sina Grace share accounts of their ongoing battles with depression and their careers as comic artists.
Art
Alexander Girard, the Designer Who Made American Modernism Less Sterile
In Girard's fantastic retrospective at the Cranbrook Art Museum, we see how he mitigated the starkness of American Modernism with bold color, earthy materials, and folk art aesthetics.
Art
A Dutch Street Photographer Who Pursued Darker Truths
A retrospective of Ed van der Elsken at the Jeu de Paume in Paris examines his embrace of youth culture and his travels around the world.
Art
A 1980s-Style Game Takes You Through a Wikipedia Rabbit Hole
Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by Kevan Davis turns Wikipedia's data into a pixelated game that you navigate through typed directions.
Art
Women of Color Find Their Rightful Place in the History of American Abstraction
According to the Kemper Museum, Magnetic Fields is the first museum exhibit in the US to show abstract artwork created exclusively by women of color.
Art
A Pop-Up Museum Devoted to O.J. Simpson
Adam Papagan's O.J. Simpson Museum at Coagula Curatorial is baldly commercial, but it also demonstrates how much of a cultural touchstone the famous trial has become.