Art
19 Artists and Art Groups Light Up Houston’s Day for Night Festival
The Day for Night weekend in Houston is welcoming 19 artists and art groups from across the globe to install spectacular light-based work.
Elena Goukassian
Art
The Intimate Past and Uncertain Future of Soviet Concrete Architecture
The concrete apartment blocks of formerly communist Eastern Europe evoke both nostalgia and legacies of suffering; now their future is in question.
Performance
An Inspiring Performance About the Recipe a Migrant Carried with Her
Carmen C. Wong has been organizing “tactile” food performances for roughly a decade, and she is now hosting unique events centered around the deeper philosophical meanings of meals.
Art
Tracing IKEA Chairs to Their Modernist Roots
The objects championed by Alfred Barr and Philip Johnson look strikingly like items that today are very much a part of our everyday lives — including IKEA furniture.
Art
Testing Human Perception with Uncannily Kinetic Body Parts
Elizabeth King experiments with human perception in her installation of mannequin-like sculptures at MASS MoCA.
News
Staten Islanders Defend Columbus at Final Hearing on NYC Monuments
During Tuesday's Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers hearing at Staten Island Borough Hall, speakers focused nearly exclusively on the Columbus Circle statue.
Books
Aleksandra Mir Delves into the Mysteries of the Universe
Mir shares the interviews she conducted with 16 space scientists and academics, many of whom helped to inform her series of black-and-white drawings of space travel.
News
Calls to Take Down Columbus and J. Marion Sims Statues at Public Hearing on NYC Monuments
During a four-hour public hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday, Central Park's Sims statue was universally reviled, while monuments to Columbus, Roosevelt, and others provoked mixed commentary.
Art
A Trio of Political Photographs Rendered in Lint
History is never objective and our relationship to the narrative is often deeply personal.
News
US Decides Guantánamo Prisoners Do Not Own the Art They Create
Critics say the change in policy further dehumanizes prisoners, who have been at the center of international controversy since the Guantánamo facility was opened.
Performance
An Ethereal Performance Unravels Like a Pop-Up Book on Stage
In A Billion Nights on Earth, a father and son go in search of a stuffed animal, traveling through multiple parallel worlds that are magically portrayed on stage.
News
Kickstarter Launches Drip, a Service for Subscribing to Artists’ Projects
Drip invites artists to create webpages that visitors can subscribe to, having exclusive access to certain projects, or whatever else the artist decides to make available to them.