Art
If you want to play an orchestral instrument and have a disability restricting play to one hand, there are currently no options. A competition underway organized by the One-Handed Musical Instrument Trust (OHMI) with Ars Electronica is striving to improve opportunities for those excluded from music.
Art
Back in the 1930s and 40s, the NYPD was keeping a close eye on potentially subversive political groups.
Books
While data visualization can seem like a modern design focus, it really has its roots in the High Middle Ages when a sudden rise in information and population resulted in the need to convey ideas in an accessible way.
Art
Some people think that ghosts are fragments from people's lives imprinted on the world, playing over and over again after death. A sound project evokes this idea of a "delayed echo" of activity with a dreamlike black orb that floats through the air.
Art
Compared to the wonders of the ancient world, urban sprawl is devastatingly mundane. But what if a mass-produced monument sprang from its overdeveloped terrain?
Art
There was much rejoicing among cartography lovers when the New York Public Library's Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division recently released over 20,000 maps for free use.
Books
James Joyce's 1939 Finnegans Wake notoriously starts out with this linguistic monstrosity thundering the fall of Adam and Eve …
News
Stolen paintings reappear in Italian kitchen, Qatar gives heritage support to Sudan, Helsinki Guggenheim looking for an architect, street artist found shot in Detroit, and more from the week in art news.
Art
John Cage, legendary composer of experimental sounds and silence, was absolutely fascinated with mushrooms. This little-known legacy consists of his revival of the New York Mycological Society in the 1960s and his extensive fungi collection, now at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A new exh
Books
Brooklyn-based photographer Rachel Sussman spent nearly a decade tracking down the elders of our world, where life is measured in centuries instead of years.
Art
A new online journal is aspiring to create a dialogue among museum professionals and the public on science and museums in the 21st century.
Performance
After money, space is often the tallest hurdle for artists in New York. Performance Space 122's RAMP is a new residency program offering emerging New York City-based artists a performance venue to develop a piece with supporting tech assistance and premiere it to an audience.