A Community Art Show for Palestine Confronts Authoritarianism 

Nearly a year after its debut at a building near Columbia University’s campus, Hind’s House, an art exhibition and community education event, returned to a Washington Heights bookstore this weekend in a three-day event beginning Saturday, October 11.  Last year,...

Two Arrested for Splashing Paint on Columbus Artwork in Spain 

Two activists affiliated with the Spanish climate emergency group Futuro Vegetal were arrested at the Museo Naval in Madrid last Sunday, October 12, after throwing biodegradable red paint over a historic painting depicting Christopher Columbus. The group scheduled its...

Tiny Art Show Repurposes a Disused Stairwell into a 1:6-Scale Gallery

In 2016, while artist McKay Lenker Bayer was still an undergraduate, her professor assigned the class the task of exhibiting their work. Unsure about presenting her work to the public, she downsized, quite literally, showing miniature paintings with teensy-tiny...

Conspiratorial Design. Information design for the bigger picture

Conspiratorial Design. Information design for the bigger picture, by Carlo Bramanti. Afterwords by Silvio Lorusso. Bringing two concepts we usually regard as antithetical, visual designer Carlo Bramanti examines how design and conspiracy theory intersect in their...