Art
A Photographer Documents the Struggles of Refugees in Lesbos, Greece
“Is this Europe?” That’s the question German photographer Kai Löffelbein heard again and again from refugees landing on the island of Lesbos, Greece this past fall.
Carey Dunne
In Brief
MoMA Unveils Unfun Revision of Its $400 Million Redesign
In disappointing news for those excited for a futuristic new Museum of Modern Art with retractable glass walls and moving floors, the museum has just unveiled scaled-back plans for its upcoming renovation.
Opinion
Saatchi Gallery Congratulates Itself on First All-Women Art Show
Charles Saatchi, head of the eponymous Saatchi Gallery in London, doesn't exactly have the best feminist track record.
Art
An Art Project Ensures Victims of Human Trafficking Don’t Fall Through the Cracks
Last year, New York-based activist-artist Molly Gochman read an article about human trafficking, an issue about which she was largely unaware.
Opinion
A Few Things You Won't Learn from Stephen Colbert's Interview with the Guerrilla Girls
Gender inequality in the art world is still a thing, and it still needs to go away.
News
A New App Attempts to See for the Blind
What if your smartphone could see for you, the same way it tells time, takes pictures, crushes candy, and occasionally calls people for you?
News
Renowned Artist Leila Alaoui, Injured in Burkina Faso Terrorist Attacks, Dies at 33
Leila Alaoui, the French-Moroccan photographer and video artist known for her poetic and unsentimental images of daily life in the Mediterranean and Middle East, died last night from injuries sustained during last week's terrorist attack in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso.
Art
Rhode Island's Newest Gallery Champions Artists With Disabilities
The term “Outsider Art,” coined in 1972 by writer Roger Cardinal, has plenty of critics.
Books
Success Secrets of a Famous Cat Photographer
Once upon a time, there was but One Cat Photographer to Rule Them All.
Books
Communist China's Cheery Propaganda Posters
In the thousands of propaganda posters produced in China between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s, the beaming face of Chairman Mao Zedong watches over a surreal utopia.
Art
Planting an Endless Fruit Orchard that Could Branch Around the World
What if the community garden was blown up to a national or even global scale, creating a huge, ever-growing network of edible flora tended by the public?
Art
Help Rebuild the University of Baghdad’s Destroyed Art Library, One Book at a Time
In 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, looters set fire to the library of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad. Seventy thousand books were reduced to ashes.