Art
The muscular abstractions of Ivo Ringe may appear to have little in common with the calibrated colored squares of Josef Albers or the mysticism of Joseph Beuys — or, for that matter, the science of classical proportions, the cellular patterns of plants, or the molecular growth of crystals — but such
Art
The popularity of silhouettes in the 18th and 19th centuries wasn't only due to them being an affordable form of portraiture before the era of photography, the art also fit with popular pseudosciences like phrenology.
Performance
There is hardly any dialogue in Small Mouth Sounds, a play about six weekend retreaters who have taken vows of silence.
Art
Since the 1990s, collector David Rumsey has digitized and made freely available his thousands of historical maps; his site has long been one of the best resources for cartography.
Art
MINNEAPOLIS — The history of arts patronage is a patriarchal affair, beginning with the word’s etymology.
Art
BERLIN — Thomas Struth’s current exhibit at the Martin-Gropius-Bau is compact yet compelling.
In Brief
Political opposition in Finland could sabotage longstanding plans to build a Guggenheim outpost on the Helsinki waterfront.
News
On Monday, the organizers of the Çanakkale Biennial canceled the exhibition's fifth edition, which was due to open on September 24.
Art
Washington, DC — “Words could not express what an agreeable spectacle this was for me to see all at one time such a prodigious quantity of every kind of work,” wrote Jean Rou in his Mémoires inédits et opuscules.
Comics
How do we picture our childhoods?
Art
A public health crisis is one of these human occurrences that brings several contravening responses and feelings to the surface: fear, recrimination, massive research efforts, emotional appeals for safety and help, charitable sacrifice, anger, religious discrimination, political advocacy, and on.
Interview
Joan Semmel has created a distinctive body of work largely centered on painted images of her own body.