Art & Design

Lee's Easter-themed creation, made with an omelet, zucchini, cheese, seaweed, ketchup and red capsicum.

Arts

These Parents Make Lovely Lunch Bag Art. Not Everyone Is Pleased

5:03pm April 29, 2015

by Tove Danovich

Elaborately illustrated napkins. Famous paintings re-created using food. Depending on your viewpoint, these lunch projects are an expression of parental love or another salvo in the parenting wars.

Liam Gaynor (center), 8, and Laura Stark (right), 8, watch as an object is made on a 3-D printer at the Hillsdale (N.J.) Public Library in January.

Libraries Make Space For 3-D Printers; Rules Are Sure To Follow

2:18pm April 29, 2015

by Joseph Leahy

They're the latest addition to so-called "maker spaces" showing up in a number of libraries. But as libraries work to redefine their purpose in the digital age, it also raises questions about misuse.

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"Question Bridge: Black Males" attempts to represent black male identity in America via a video question-and-answer exchange. At top center is Jesse Williams, the project's executive producer.

Questioning The Black Male Experience In America

2:10pm April 28, 2015

by Shereen Marisol Meraji

Redefining the narrative of what it means to be black and male in the U.S. is at the heart of "Question Bridge: Black Males," an award-winning, multimedia art project.

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Each of the 60 paintings in Jacob Lawrence's Great Migration series is accompanied with a caption. For this panel, he wrote in 1941: "In every town Negroes were leaving by the hundreds to go North and enter into Northern industry."

Arts

Painting The 'Epic Drama' Of The Great Migration: The Work Of Jacob Lawrence

9:18pm April 26, 2015

by Hansi Lo Wang

A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who fled the segregated South during the Great Migration.

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An illustration of noblemen enjoying a feast outdoors, from a French edition of The Hunting Book of Gaston Phebus, 15th century.

Arts

Sexy, Simple, Satirical: 300 Years Of Picnics In Art

4:32pm April 24, 2015

by Tove Danovich

From Goya to Banksy, artists through the centuries have tackled modernity and its discontents through depictions of eating outdoors.

The Zady clothing line sources cotton from the Texas Organic Cotton Cooperative in Lubbock, Texas.

Arts

Slow Fashion Shows Consumers What It's Made Of

1:15pm April 24, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

It has been two years since more than 1,100 workers were killed in a garment factory collapse in Bangladesh. "Ethical fashion" is gaining momentum — though what that means depends on whom you ask.

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Jackson Pollock cooks with his wife, the artist Lee Krasner, and his mother, Stella Pollock, in the kitchen of his home in Springs, in East Hampton, N.Y., 1950.

Books
Arts

Lunch With Monet, Dinner With Jackson Pollock

10:51am April 24, 2015

by Tove Danovich

Two new books focus on the culinary lives of these two artists. Turns out, their approaches to food provide a new way of thinking about their two very different approaches to art.

Award-Winning Poets Write For Passersby In New York

7:03pm April 23, 2015

by Hansi Lo Wang

In New York City, award-winning poets are sitting in booths Thursday, ready to write poems on demand for passersby. Organizers of the event say they want to bring poetry to everyone in the city.

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Arts

Initially Incorrect

9:09am April 23, 2015

In this game, every clue is a sentence that ends with a well-known initialism, BUT is the opposite of what we're looking for

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Andy Warhol's Mona Lisa Four Times, 1978.

Arts

Gift Worth $400 Million To Art Institute Of Chicago Includes Works By Warhol

3:35pm April 22, 2015

by Bill Chappell

The donation was confirmed after the museum agreed to display the 42 paintings, silk-screens and sculptures for the next 50 years.