Shrabonti Bagchi writes about the “constructed” history of Chandigarh Chairs and how the South Asian designers are often erased, and Pierre Jeanneret gets all the credit: In 2018, the three design historians—Bengaluru-based designer and independent researcher Nia Thandapani, London-based Petra Seitz, who is working on a PhD at The Bartlett School of Architecture on the […]
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Posted inBooks
The Rise of the Machines
Rebecca Frank Morgan’s poems critique sexism, objectification, and violence by depicting humans as robots.
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Garth Weiser Explores the Limits of Technical Wizardry
Moving beyond the confines of abstract signs, Weiser seems to be seeking social and philosophical meaning.
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An Asian American Landscape Artist to Be Reckoned With
Kim Van Do takes the full range of our vision, from left to right and sky to ground, to an extreme.
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Books to See and Feel
These alluringly physical objects provide an opportunity to explore the symbiotic relationship between sight and touch.
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A Tattoo Artist’s History of Tattoos
TATTOO: 1730s-1970s. Henk Schiffmacher’s Private Collection is strong on the presentation of images, but says very little about their meaning.
Posted inMusic
Trippie Redd, Louder and Crunchier
The Ohio rapper’s new album, Neon Shark, is a pop-punk gem.
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Required Reading
This week, NASA lands on Mars, retiring the Group of Seven, the Pentagon’s algorithm-driven weapons, the life of Stan Lee, Stonehenge’s Welsh origins, and more.
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Angela Dufresne Tells a Different Story
I cannot think of another narrative painter as expansive, surprising, funny, unsettling, tender, wacky, challenging, theatrical, and radically imaginative as Angela Dufresne.
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Angel Otero’s Paintings of Absence
Otero’s images of water and disaster mirror the wreckage of Hurricane Maria as well as the devastation of COVID-19.
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Living with art, I am surrounded by thoughts, visions and conversations by other artists. It’s all very intimate.”
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SIN, a Gritty and Sublime Biopic of Michelangelo
Andrei Konchalovsky’s film depicts an artist full of ambition, paranoia, loathing, and regret.