Art
An Artistic Storm Fills a Formerly Abandoned Water Reservoir
Magdalena Fernández's art installation is the first to fill the Buffalo Bayou Cistern, a formerly abandoned 1920s water reservoir in Houston, Texas.
Allison Meier
Art
An Artist Embraces the Magic Symbols that Helped Send Him to Death Row
At Day for Night festival, Damien Echols invited visitors to engage with the occult symbols that helped lead to his wrongful murder conviction.
Art
Merry Christmas from Krampus, Santa's Demonic Helper
Krampuskarten depict Saint Nicholas's darker counterpart: the devilish Krampus, whose current image visually carries centuries of folklore.
Books
An Artist’s 50-Year Project to Alter and Deconstruct a Victorian Novel
After five decades of mutating an obscure Victorian novel, Thomas Phillips's A Humument is printed in its final form.
Books
Christmas at Midcentury, When Aluminum Trees Replaced Victorian Evergreens
A new book by Sarah Archer explores the influence of the Space Race and Cold War on America's midcentury Christmas celebrations.
Art
The Challenge of Making a Permanent Exhibit About Mercurial New York
The Museum of the City of New York opens its first permanent exhibition, an ambitious multimedia journey through 400 years of the city's turbulent history.
Art
10 Art and Design Calendars to Help You Plan for an Uncertain 2017
From radical diaries to cosmic chronicles, here are 10 art and design calendars to plan for the upcoming year of 2017.
Art
The Skeletal Welsh Horse You Must Beat in a Battle of Rhymes
In the Welsh folkloric tradition of Mari Lwyd, a horse skull visits your home around Christmas, and you must best it in poetry or allow it inside.
Art
Why Are There Dead Birds on Victorian Christmas Cards?
One of the more curious recurring images on 19th-century Christmas cards is the dead bird, which may symbolize mortality or something more ritualistic.
Art
A Modernist Houston Post Office Is Reborn as a Colossal Event Venue
With the Day for Night festival, the Barbara Jordan Post Office invites visitors to reconsider what the colossal concrete building could be for Houston.
Books
Creating an Atlas of Overlooked Cartography for New York City
Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's book Nonstop Metropolis charts the overlooked geographic history of New York City.
Art
An Audio Tour of the Museum of Modern Art’s Dust
Artist Nina Katchadourian spent two years exploring the dustiest realms of New York's Museum of Modern Art for a new audio tour.