Art
Art has played a role in the Umbrella Movement since day one, from public art installations like Stand By You: ‘Add Oil’ Machine to a Facebook competition to design the movement’s logo.
Art
From Vincent Van Gogh to Joseph Cornell, writing has always been a crucial part of the artist's life.
Art
Ezra Pound wrote that all great art is born from the metropolis, so it's no surprise that the metropolis itself has become one of art's primary motifs.
Opinion
You might say that Antoni Gaudí was an architect of the cloth. From 1883 until his death in 1926, the Catalonian master oversaw the construction of the Roman Catholic basilica Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain.
News
After Tate Britain closed last Wednesday night, a homeless man had the museum all to himself, the London Evening Standard reported. Raj Patel had fallen asleep in a bathroom stall just before closing.
News
China has blocked Instagram, various media outlets are reporting, after monitoring sites like Blocked in China and Great Fire were unable to access it.
News
Archaeologists using Google Earth have stumbled on more than 50 geoglyphs (massive earth drawings) created by ancient peoples in Northern Kazakhstan in Central Asia, LiveScience reported.
Art
Gustave Courbet claimed to paint only “real and existing things,” yet an 1864 photograph of his studio suggests otherwise.
Art
In a little under a decade, the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, or “Tower of David,” in Caracas, Venezuela, has achieved almost mythical status. After being dreamed up by billionaire David Brillembourg in 1990, construction halted on the building in 1994, when a third of the country’s banks failed.
Interview
Every great museum has at least a few vitrines dedicated to the remarkable object that is the artist's book.
Opinion
Art gallerists in Mexico are blaming slow business on an anti–money laundering law targeting drug lords, reports the Washington Post.
Interview
Photographer Gaia Squarci's Broken Screen series poignantly examines the implications of the blind man’s sign, deconstructing what it means to be visually impaired in a sighted world.