Art

Hunting for Dragons in Antoni Gaudí’s Barcelona Masterpieces

The dragon pops up as a recurring motif in Gaudí's famous works, and this is no coincidence.

Art

A Celebration of Contemporary Caribbean Poetry at the Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum hosts a night of poetry in celebration of Caribbean works and artistry, with readings by three Cave Canem poets.

Interview

Photographer Susan Meiselas on the Relationships She's Built with Her Subjects

Meiselas, whose documentary photography is wide ranging, says the one thing that ties her work together is her "relationships with subjects over time."

Announcement

Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s 2018 MFA Low Residency Thesis Exhibition

The 2018 MFA Low Residency Thesis Exhibition is on view in MassArt’s Design and Media Center from July 30 to August 8, 2018.

Comics

An Artist's Workout

There's that tired old bit about artists being weak and tortured.

Art

Debunking the Myths Around America’s Rise to Power

Sarah Wagner questions the romanticized or elided stories that Americans tell themselves about the forces that built the United States into a world power.

Art

Archaeologists May Have Discovered a Church Built on the Site of Constantine the Great’s Conversion to Christianity

During work along the right bank of the Tiber this summer, the archaeological group Cooperativa Archeologia uncovered what was first thought to be a villa, but later considered to be a church.

Art

Required Reading

This week, a new micro-car in Europe, white nationalists misuse ancient history, Joan Jonas in London, a feminist history of food journalism, and more.

Books

A Writer’s Act of Divination

Selah Saterstrom proposes that the act of divinatory reading and the reading of a text are interchangeable, that a text is far more than a sequence of sentences.

Music

An Electropop Take on Romantic Rapture

The grand arc of Sophie’s bewilderingly titled Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides swings through a billion little moments of rapture, with sounds beautiful, ugly, extreme.

Art

The Ghosts of Our Future Climate at Storm King

A group exhibition featuring almost 20 artists suggests directions for visual art in response to climate change.

Art

What Would Grandma Do?

I’m glad Grandma never had to hear the President say almost every offensive word, at least once, on national TV.