Sackler Gallery
Opening Feb. 26, 2011

The Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art present “Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan,” a major new traveling exhibition that combines majestic sixth-century Chinese Buddhist sculpture and 3-D imaging technology to tell the compelling story of one of the most important groups of Buddhist devotional sites in early medieval China.

I got an email from my brother, Barry Rosof, about some cave paintings he hiked to in Baja. He’s a guy who knows how to retire in style. Here’s his report. Over New Years I took a trip into the San Francisco de la Sierra, a mountain range in central Baja. …Prehistoric paintings are found [...]

Internet Archaeology Work from their oeuvre (and Now Thats What I Call MIDI). “Internet Archaeology seeks to explore, recover, archive and showcase the graphic artifacts found within earlier Internet Culture. Established in 2009, the chief purpose of Internet Archaeology is to preserve these artifacts and acknowledge their importance in understanding the beginnings and birth of an Internet [...]

The complex relationship between humans and animals has been a subject of artists ever since the first cave drawings. Animals are hunted, feared, idolized, tamed, rescued, destroyed, watched, and loved by humans. The “Spotlight on Animal Art” competiti…

Liz Wendelbo Work from (primarily) Optiks. “Her filmmaking predicates resistance to cinema as a virtual medium – this resistance in film is what she refers to as Cold Cinema. It is a sentiment and a philosophy which places the artist in a position of resistance, akin to a soldier in a bunker, or Plato’s imaginary [...]

With an American flag at its heart and a jaunty colored brick road on the floor, Abigail DeVille’s Gold Mountain should be upbeat. But the dark, cave-like installation at Marginal Utility is a sorrowful piece, a shrine almost. And the flag and crazy brick road are degraded symbols. Gold Mountain is a hell on earth. [...]