News
New dating of rock art in Indonesia shows that at the same time stampedes of bulls and horses were appearing in the Ardèche caves in France, similar art was being made in the Pacific region.
Art
Photography as medium is not dead, but you can argue it is in a contemporary state of flux.
Art
With a mission to show that the past wasn't always as we now envision it to be, Chris Wild's Retronaut has been compiling curiosities of vintage photography and other archives online.
Books
"In contrast to other medical specialists' offices with their practical equipment of examining tables and rolling tools, the therapist's work space has few obvious demands beyond seating for clinician and patient," psychiatrist and photographer Sebastian Zimmermann writes in an introduction to Fifty
Art
Glass tubes twisted into typography and pictorial designs have hummed on the streets of Hong Kong since the 1950s.
Art
PHILADELPHIA — Before summoning unsettling images of horror out of the American everyday on film, David Lynch was a visual art student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Art
Whether angel on the battlefield or vixen of the hospital ward, the depiction of the nurse has changed over time to reflect different perceptions on gender, health, and medicine.
Books
Big Art/Small Art by Tristan Manco, out later this month from Thames & Hudson, is an attempt to see what size means to art in the 21st century.
Art
Jamie Stewart, of the band Xiu Xiu, describes how he and artist Danh Vō started to collaborate as "amorphous," with Vō having incorporated some of Stewart's lyrics from "Fabulous Muscles" into his visual art.
Art
Whether you imagine a witch as a monstrous Macbeth conjuror, or a more innocuous pointy-hatted character riding a broomstick, it's likely the visuals of art have something to do with it.
Art
For three decades, Mark Landis quietly infiltrated art museums across the United States with donated forgeries, works he carefully copied himself from the whole of art history.
Performance
Laurie Anderson was already working on a cycle of songs with Kronos Quartet when on October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy rose the Hudson River into her West Village home.