DAM’s Jeffrey Gibson exhibit takes a powerful swing at Native American invisibility

DAM’s Jeffrey Gibson exhibit takes a powerful swing at Native American invisibility

Jeffrey Gibson wants to make connections: Between Native American tradition and contemporary art, between anger and release, oppression and expression, masculine and feminine, between the tipi architecture of his ancestors and the easy-breezy music of George Michael, Stevie Wonder and Public Enemy. Twentieth Century pop 

Wynne Reynolds   Words that Wound: The Language of Misogyny

Wynne Reynolds Words that Wound: The Language of Misogyny

Edge Gallery May 18 – June 3, 2018 Words that Wound: the language of misogyny by Wynne Reynolds is a visualization of the effect of language on thought, from the forgotten vocabulary of our ancestors to current phrases that create harmful perceptions of femininity. Wynne’s 

Werewolf Pups | WerePups

Werewolf Pups | WerePups

What would a werewolf look like… as a baby? That’s the question SFX artist Asia Eriksen has sought to answer in creating a line of life-sized baby werewolves, which she calls WerePups. Each hyper-realistic silicone doll — 18 inches long at “birth” — is handmade 

A New Immersive Installation in Paris Lets You Step inside Klimt’s Masterpieces

A New Immersive Installation in Paris Lets You Step inside Klimt’s Masterpieces

Blink and you’ll miss them, but over the course of its 29 seasons, The Simpsons has incorporated a plethora of sly art-historical references into its plots. Some of the best feature in an episode titled “Mom and Pop Art,” in the course of which Jasper Johns makes a stellar 

Harmony

Harmony

“There was no looking for the right beginning, no search for the perfect close, and no listener but the player themselves beyond all listening, so I felt in that modal harmony of stone and grass and mountain sky and the clear view across the blue lake 

Summer Flowers

Summer Flowers

Summer Flowers by Jane Wormell

Sea Deer

Sea Deer

Polish artist Jerzy Przybył http://www.malarze.com/obraz.php?id=966  

Creating a Chinese Font

Creating a Chinese Font

The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font The story of Chinese characters begins with, of all things, turtle bellies. The kings of the Shang Dynasty—which ruled from the 16th to the 11th centuries BC—had questions. Questions about what the king