I first became aware of Carole Seborovski’s work in the mid-1980s, when she was a geometric artist working on paper with a restrained palette.
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Why doesn’t the Whitney Museum of American Art inaugurate a series of exhibitions in honor of Herman Melville? It would certainly be fitting given the museum’s recent change of address.
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SALEM, Mass. — The Dutch East India Company wrested control of the Asian spice trade from the Spanish and Portuguese, went on to own virtually all of Indonesia, and monopolized trade with Japan for 200 years.
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From the beginning the idea has been to create beauty from that which is readily available in a world of hardship and extreme scarcity.
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If the exquisitely mercurial art of Audra Wolowiec can be reduced to a single factor, it would be breath.
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As Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, the Museum of the Moving Image’s auspicious foray into exhibiting contemporary art, wryly suggests, it might be film and its iconic images that help stave off decay.
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This week in art news: Florentijn Hofman accused Brazilian protesters of plagiarizing his giant duck sculpture, the National Museum of African American History and Culture was criticized for a planned display devoted to Bill Cosby, and the Denver Art Museum returned a stolen sandstone sculpture to Cambodia.
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The National Endowment for the Artsis jumping into the heated US presidential race with a plan to appoint artists to cover the front-runners in both the Democratic and Republican parties.
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Tribeca is one of the few neighborhoods where you can tell time by a 19th-century clock tower, as the mechanical timepiece at the top of 346 Broadway has been hand-wound every week since its restoration in the 1980s.
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Leonardo da Vinci not only invented the first refrigerator, self-propelled vehicle, and robot — he also invented the first drone.
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