Art and Society

Hyperallergic - “Today I’m going to let you in on a little secret,” purrs the Hungarian porn star Cicciolina in a video. “Some of the best porn of all time isn’t on Pornhub. It can only be found in a museum.”  ...

Hyperallergic - In response to appeals from the Ethiopian government, a leather-bound Ethiopian Coptic Bible and a set of Victorian graduated horn beakers were withdrawn from a June 17 sale at Busby, a small au...

NY TIMES  - For decades the monumental 10-panel fresco by Diego Rivera depicting a continent linked by creativity has been mounted in the lobby of a theater at City College of San Francisco. - read more ...

NY TIMES  - BOSTON — By 1984, 24-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat had already broken into the mainstream art world. But the onetime street artist still couldn’t shake the legacy of his teenage years spent writing ...

Hyperallergic - For millions of viewers since then, Borchardt’s recommendation has been taken to heart. Created around 1340 BCE and weighing 44 pounds, the captivating polychromatic bust was unveiled to the pub...

NY Times - During the George Floyd marches last year, businesses boarded up. This year, hundreds of those boards will be displayed in exhibitions in Minneapolis, New York and Chicago. - read more...

domus - An Instagram profile that captures the obscure, surrealistic side of world news: it's an editorial project born digital to become more than that, and also a reflection of its creator. Or maybe just jour...

Smithsonian Magazine - At the first event of the Smithsonian’s new Arts and Industries Building—the 1881 inauguration ball for the newly elected President James Garfield—the centerpiece in the rotunda was the m...

design boom -  Japanese artist yasuaki onishi presents ‘distance between presence and absence’ at the takamatsu art museum in japan. - read more ...

Art Daily -  In an undated image provided via National Library of Medicine, a page from from Morton’s “Crania Americana,” one of a series of works outlining a supposed hierarchy of intelligence based on skull s...