Art
The Rubin Museum Becomes a Soothing Soundscape
Slip into The World Is Sound, close your eyes, and leave the jangled world outside for awhile.
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From James Baldwin to Susan Sontag, Listen to Recordings from PEN America’s Vast Archive
After finding its literary archives inaccessible, PEN America launched a five-year project to digitize 1,500 hours of audio and video.
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Live a Year in Virtual Solitude in Walden, the Game
Walden, a Game transforms Henry David Thoreau's famed book into a thoughtful digital experience.
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Placing Pieces of Local History in an Empty Marcel Breuer Building
Tom Burr's installations bring together past and present in a famous Brutalist building in New Haven.
Books
A Comics Artist Draws on Emotional Isolation and Domestic Strife
In two new comics, Jeff Lemire portrays a pair of families' difficult pasts and the obstacles that crowd their paths ahead.
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Damien Hirst's Shipwreck Fantasy Sinks in Venice
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable is supposed to be Hirst’s major comeback, a rebuke to his diminished popularity and slumping market value.
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Fruits Reborn as Sculpture
At the Scarab Club, Mary Eddy is showing her sculptures made from intricately cut and dried fruit skins, which have been "liberated" from their biological functions.
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The Continuing Saga of the Architect Made into a Diamond
The power games of Jill Magid's project concerning the archives of Luis Barragán continue in an extensive exhibition that completes the circle without any conclusive resolution.
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Times Square Phone Booths Call Up Immigrants' Stories
It has been said that we humans live in our contradictions; these speakers prove that.
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A Blind Artist Looks Back at Growing Up in the '90s
In 2014, Manuel Solano lost his eyesight from an HIV-related infection. His new works treat that experience as the generative event for his art.
Books
Imagine If a Victorian Scientist Studied the Plastic Debris in Our Oceans
Mandy Barker's Beyond Drifting features pollution collected recently on the shores of Ireland, but photographed as if under a 19th-century microscope.
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Why Edvard Munch Began Painting Portraits of the Soul
An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art illustrates how, over time, Munch moved away from observational painting toward something more symbolic and emotional.