[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Just after dawn on a recent weekday morning, at the edge of a nondescript parking lot somewhere in LA County, I met three members of Operation Under (OU), a clandestine collective of graffiti artists, painters, photographers, nature devotees, and urban anthropologists. We donned rubber boots and hi-vis safety vests, walked past […]

[ad_1]  Art Craft #fiber art #Lee ShinJa #tapestry #textiles #weaving August 22, 2024 Grace Ebert “Screen” (1979), cotton thread on linen cloth, 52 x 35 1/2 inches. All images courtesy of Tina Kim Gallery, shared with permission When artist Lee ShinJa was born in 1930 in Uljin, Korea, during a period of Japanese colonial rule,  textile […]

[ad_1] In times of change, art has the power to move us to see, reconsider, and reinvent, and New York City is fertile ground for some of the best art in the world and for the most creative among us to grow. This guide is designed to help you navigate the city’s vibrant art communities, […]

[ad_1]  Art Nature #Fabian Knecht #installation #site-specific #trees August 22, 2024 Grace Ebert “Isolation (Felswand)” (2024), wood, canvas, paint, light, 15 x 7 x 5 meters. All photos © Studio Fabian Knecht, shared with permission Walk into one of Fabian Knecht’s installations, and you’ll likely smell the dewy, herbal scent of moss and the […]

[ad_1] Lavinia Fontana, “Portrait of a Pregnant Woman, Possibly a Self-Portrait” (c. 1592–1604), 44 x 34 5/8 inches, held in private collection (image via Wikimedia Commons) Possibly because of the absence of a string of nucleotides in chromosome 8, fewer than one in a billion people have a hereditary condition known as generalized hypertrichosis terminalis, […]

[ad_1]  Art Books Craft Nature #color #color theory #Julie Beeler #mushrooms August 21, 2024 Kate Mothes All images © Julie Beeler and Chronicle Books, shared with permission In terms of genes, humans are actually more closely related to mushrooms than plants! That’s because key characteristics—how we store energy, how our cells are built, and […]

[ad_1] TORONTO — Star Trek’s vast transmedia universe often reminds me of the fandom’s “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” (IDIC) philosophy.  Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry originally intended IDIC as a Vulcan belief in the beauty of universal acceptance, which informed the universe’s worldbuilding. Many Trekkies took IDIC as permission to freely explore the “infinite diversities” […]

[ad_1]  Climate Design Nature #architecture #Blurring Boundaries #bricks August 20, 2024 Grace Ebert All images courtesy of Blurring Boundaries Dating back to ancient Babylon, biophilic design is characterized by an intrinsic connection to nature, whether that be lush walls of plants, open-air space, or organic, flowing forms. The style has grown in popularity in […]

[ad_1] Rap battles, Indigenous symbols reclaimed, Esther Pressoir’s alma mater, and more in the last mini puzzle of the summer. Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is currently writing a nonfiction book about crosswords. More by Natan Last […]

[ad_1]  Art #Max Hooper Schneider #plants #science fiction #sculpture August 19, 2024 Kate Mothes Detail of “Like Father Like Son.” Installation view of ‘Max Hooper Schneider: Carnival of Gestation,’ UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, 2024. Photos by Sun Shi. All images © Max Hooper Schneider, courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, shared with permission […]