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Art — May 10, 2013, 9:00 am
“Vermilion Flycatcher, Arizona, May 1941.” Eliot Porter’s work will be on view through July as part of Artist’s Choice: Trisha Donnelly at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. © Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Art — May 2, 2013, 9:00 am
Wait and watch awhile (high) was featured in the May 2013 Readings section. Paul Wackers‘s work will be on view in June at Narwhal gallery in Toronto. Courtesy the artist and A.L.I.C.E. Gallery, Brussels
Art — April 29, 2013, 9:00 am
“Untitled (Sumner, Mississippi, Cassidy Bayou in Background)” is now on view as part of At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Eggleston’s work was featured in the May 2013 Readings section. Photograph © Eggleston Artistic Trust
Art — April 25, 2013, 9:00 am
“Dawn 15” was on view last December at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery in New York City. The artist produced his DAWN series while living five months a year for four years in a hut near the summit of Mount Fuji in Japan. Image courtesy the artist and Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York City
Art — April 10, 2013, 8:00 am
With Kevin Van Dam at the Bassmasters Classic in Shreveport, Louisiana, February 24–25, 2012. Photograph by Misty Keasler
For more, see “The Super Bowl! (Of Fishing),” by Paul Wachter, in the April 2013 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
Art — April 5, 2013, 8:00 am
“Repose, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia,” a photograph by Charlotte Dumas, whose work was featured in the April Readings section. Dumas’s Anima series, which depicts the burial horses of Arlington National Cemetery as they fall asleep at night, was on view in March at Julie Saul Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy Julie Saul Gallery, New York City
Art — April 3, 2013, 8:00 am
With Kevin Van Dam at the Bassmasters Classic in Shreveport, Louisiana, February 24–25, 2012. Photograph by Misty Keasler
For more, see “The Super Bowl! (Of Fishing),” by Paul Wachter, in the April 2013 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
Art — March 29, 2013, 8:00 am
Untitled, a mixed-media painting by Francis Alÿs, whose work was featured in April’s Readings section. Alÿs is currently participating in the Sharjah Biennial, in Sharjah, UAE. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York City/London
Art — March 27, 2013, 8:00 am
In a slide projection entitled Cuts, Burns, Punctures, Ishmael Randall Weeks uses found slides from 1970s and ’80s Peru, which he alters to reflect on the violence of the country’s multidecade struggle for democracy. Still courtesy the artist and Eleven Rivington, New York City.
Art — March 22, 2013, 7:25 pm
“Untitled #11,” by Jonathan Smith, from his series Untold Stories. © The artist. Courtesy Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City
Art — March 1, 2013, 6:18 pm
“Tights, 1987–2011,” by Daido Moriyama, whose work appeared in the Readings section of the March issue. © the artist. Courtesy Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London
Art — February 14, 2013, 1:55 pm
St. Valentine’s Day — Hawking in Central Park. Harper’s Magazine, March 1879.
Art — February 11, 2013, 11:20 am
Jetty, Niger Delta. A man arrives at the end of the day to sell ice cream to children who have finished helping unload diesel fuel from the creeks. © Samuel James
Art — January 28, 2013, 11:00 am
Aria City, Kabul. The Aria City project covers 350 blocks, and includes businesses, residences, and social services.
Art — October 19, 2012, 3:09 pm
New Hogan Lake, Valley Springs, California. Grant to install shade shelters and renovate picnic tables in Oak Knoll Campground, to reduce future maintenance and enhance visitor satisfaction. Amount of funding provided by the Recovery Act: $275,000
From Ress’s series America Recovered: A Survey of the ARRA, photos from which were featured in the November 2012 issue, accompanying Ian Volner's “The Invisible Stimulus.”
Art — October 19, 2012, 11:09 am
A photograph from the London Olympics, by Jason Fulford. More work from this series is featured in the November 2012 issue, accompanying Geoff Dyer's “A Brief Period of Rejoicing.”
Years of consideration preceding the inclusion of the word “phat” in Random House’s 1996 Compact Unabridged Dictionary:
Scientists created crash helmets that stink when cracked and fruit flies to whom blue light smells delicious.
In Belize, a construction company bulldozed a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple to make road fill.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
