Art
DETROIT — Despite the conference featuring some of the Detroit’s leading thinkers and most innovative practitioners discussing a compelling topic — the intersection of art and ritual — I felt deeply ambivalent about attending.
Art
Last summer, a number of houses of worship in Nairobi gleamed yellow, with their walls freshly painted in sunshiny shades. This fall, more religious institutions in the Kenyan capital as well as in Mombasa will shine, standing out vividly against the otherwise normal landscape.
Art
In the 1960s, New York City commuters were prodded into respectful behavior by subway posters featuring a black-and-white tuxedo cat.
Art
The curatorial scheme of the Race and Revolution exhibition at Nolan Park on Governors Island is bold and seditious.
Art
Despite embalming and sealed caskets being a relatively new tradition in American burial, brought about by the high mortality of the Civil War, we've quickly become uncomfortable with our mortal decay.
News
To explore the United States's newest national monument, you're going to need a boat — or at least, some kind of device that keeps you afloat oceanic waters
Opinion
We've become accustomed to the usual art institution social media feeds that remind us of artist birthdays, collection highlights, upcoming events, and the other static in our art-filled lives. OK, that's harsh, but you know what I mean.
Announcement
Meet the newest class of the “best kept secret” MFA Studio Art program in the country, UConn’s graduate studio art program.
Art
"We were a congregation of red-beaded necklace adorners, velveteen ushers, rattlers, and clenched-fist praise dancers."
Art
As a New York gravedigger once succinctly put it to me: “We all have dead.” No person is isolated from loss.
Comics
Art
CORNING, NY — To closely inspect the evolution of the microscope, the Corning Museum of Glass is highlighting the lens-making behind the optical tool.