When Artists Are Hackers
LOS ANGELES — The group exhibition So Excited at Steve Turner is premised on art-making as a form of hacking, a hacker defined as “someone who is immersed in the...
The Lyrical and Funny Art of Erasing Words From Books
On pages 36 and 37 of Captain January, a 19th-century children’s novel by Laura E. Richards, Mary Ruefle has erased all but the following words: “My / heart / was...
Why the Mbari Houses in Nigeria Became Extinct
Current conversations on the relationship between colonial history and Indigenous art often focus on the physical repatriation of extant artifacts, as seen in a recent wave of museums returning Benin...
Graceful, Glistening Photos of Beachgoers on Ipanema
When the photographer Sandra Cattaneo Adorno was growing up in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and ’60s, she spent her days gazing at the city’s most famous beach from...
Fortnite Turns Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Into a Sci-fi Nightmare
The difficulty of these times is that before bringing in new ideas, we’d have to destroy all the simulacra that the century and its favorite instrument, television, have generated to...
A Bright New Grocery Store, Made Entirely of Recycled Plastic
LOS ANGELES — There’s something strange about The Plastic Bag Store, a bright new grocery in downtown Los Angeles. At first glance, their frozen pizza looks like any other pepperoni...