-
+19 +1
Bohemians, Bauhaus and bionauts: the utopian dreams that became architectural nightmares
The theme of the inaugural London Design Biennale is Utopia to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s classic. Director Christopher Turner remembers the architects on a mission to make the world a better place.
-
+3 +1
The octopus that ruled London
For Victorians the octopus inspired terror and apocalyptic visions. By Justin Parkinson.
-
+13 +1
Caught in the Act
A sampling of meticulous mug shots, along with about forty crime-related images from American tabloids, police files, security cameras, and photographers both anonymous and widely known, comprise the fascinating exhibition “Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play,” currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Michael Greenberg.
-
+31 +1
What Do You Do When Your Family Was the Victim of CIA Mind-Control Experiments?
Visual artist Sarah-Anne Johnson's ongoing series explores how psychological torture impacted her matriarchal family. By Rea McNamara.
-
+35 +1
The Texas Prison Museum Thrives on ‘Dark Tourism’
The gift shop offers shirts honoring the electric chair, “Home of Old Sparky,” and the museum's visitors get a “selectively edited” history of corrections. By Robyn Ross.
-
+5 +1
Remembering Slavery At Whitney
A Louisiana plantation that is an emotionally devastating museum of slavery. By Rod Dreher.
-
+24 +1
Schrodinger’s Bird: The art of mind-bending physics
Schrodinger’s Bird brings the mesmerising concepts of quantum quirkiness to life in a new animation and exhibition. By Daniel Keane. (May 24, 2016)
-
+12 +1
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life
Du Bois’s charts focus on Georgia, tracing the routes of the slave trade to the Southern state, the value of black-owned property between 1875 and 1889, comparing occupations practiced by blacks and whites, and calculating the number of black students in different school courses (2 in business, 2,252 in industrial). By Allison Meier.
-
+2 +1
Georgiana Houghton
Spirit Drawings review – awe-inspiring visions of a Victorian medium. By Jonathan Jones.
-
+28 +1
Come on a Journey to Masdar City, the World’s First Entirely Green City (in the Middle of the Desert)
In this interview 24 year-old French photographer Etienne Malapert introduces us to The City of Possibilities, a documentary photography series that brings us to Masdar City...
-
+19 +1
In pictures: Relics of the Soviet era
An exhibition examining the landscape and abandoned spaces of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries opens in London.
-
+20 +1
‘What I Couldn’t Say Myself’
Danny Lyon has spent much of his career taking intimate photographs of marginal, working-class, and outlaw communities. By Max Nelson.
-
+10 +1
In the Shadow of the DNC, Art About Politics vs. Political Art
"In an interview, African American collage artist Theodore Harris, whose work is included in the exhibition, refutes the idea that George Washington is a universally positive figure in American history." By Stan Mir.
-
+3 +1
The art that shows what goes on deep in the human brain
Sleep paralysis and imagined memories - exploring the edges of human consciousness. By Paul Kerley. (Feb. 29, 2016)
-
+2 +1
Unholy Roman Emperor
Mary Beard on the ancient and modern reputation of Nero.
-
+14 +1
Painting once written off as £20 copy reassessed as £20m Raphael
Madonna composition at National Trust’s Haddo House was spotted by a historian making a BBC TV series. By Dalya Alberge.
-
+24 +1
How Photographs Have Shaped Our View of the National Parks
There were two prominent types of landscape photographs in the 1860s: Civil War battlefields strewn with the dead, and sweeping vistas of the West. By Allison Meier.
-
+20 +1
The Growing Charm of Dada
Dada was not a fashion, a style, or a doctrine. It was more than a footnote to cultural history. We can better understand it as a condition, a spirit, a productive state of mind that has remained alive... By Alfred Brendel.
-
+4 +1
Klimt’s Women, Real and on Canvas
A show at the Neue Galerie, “Klimt and the Women of Vienna’s Golden Age, 1900-1918,” delves into a complex topic. By Ken Johnson.
-
+35 +1
The Great Moon Hoax Was Simply a Sign of Its Time
Scientific discoveries and faraway voyages inspired fantastic tales—and a [2015] Smithsonian exhibition. By Sarah Zielinski.(July 2, 2015)
Submit a link
Start a discussion