News
Centuries before Wester Europe coined the term, "renaissance man," artist Su Shi moonlighted as a pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman for the Song Dynasty.
News
Deborah De Robertis gave Catholic pilgrims to Lourdes the shock of their lives by disrobing as the Virgin Mary to emancipate the female gaze from religion.
In Brief
Plastic Jesus has replaced a handful of shopping displays with child-sized bulletproof vests as a satirization of Trump's America.
News
The former White House Director of Communications holds his second-ever press conference, but it's for a new Off-Broadway musical lampooning the Trump family.
Interview
Emma Sulkowicz stood up against rape culture three years before the Harvey Weinstein story broke, but most articles about "Mattress Performance" erased the artist's queer identity. Why?
News
The Shell energy corporation has ended its years-long partnership agreements with the Van Gogh Art Museum and the Mauritshuis, but it's already started to invest in UK-based institutions.
Interview
Whereas the American government is providing loans to Puerto Rican victims of Hurricane Maria, Arte al Rescate is providing direct aid to victims by fundraising through the arts.
Art
One of the Governors Island Art Fair's founding organizers described it as an enormous summer camp for artists. Clearly these artists only vacation on Halloween.
News
70 of New York City arts organizations have called upon the City's government to convene a symposium on how to better serve the city's immigrant community now under siege by ICE and the Trump administration.
Opinion
The seeming inability of rigorously trained, highly educated professors to identify what should be an obvious example of abuse on the part of Avital Ronell signals a fatal flaw in academia.
In Brief
Politicians have feared that the bad-boy artist's dramatic architecture would disrupt the historic scenery that once inspired the work of Norway's most-famous painter, Edvard Munch.
Art
A retrospective at the Guggenheim presents Giacometti as one of art history's great vanishers of women.