Art
CORNING, NY — The 19th-century glass models of marine invertebrates created by father-son duo Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka were intended to capture as accurately as possible the delicate bodies of underwater creatures.
In Brief
A "crazed woman" who threw live crickets and worms all over a crowded subway car in New York claimed the bug-throwing was a performance art stunt gone horribly wrong and was subsequently arrested by the NYPD.
Art
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY — Have you ever wanted to walk through a large shirt? Whether or not you've entertained the notion, it is now a real possibility at Storm King Art Center.
Art
Before he started taking photographs at a refugee camp in Lebanon, 37-year-old Omar Imam was a refugee himself.
News
The U.S. Latina/o Art Forum has just put out a call to action for all its members, urging them to “increase the representation of Latinx art at the 2017 Annual [College Art Association] Conference by submitting a proposal to present a paper.”
News
On this week’s art crime blotter: the makers of a Millennium Falcon–shaped shed struck back, a thief attempted to hold a sculpture ransom, and a painting of a nude man with a teapot set local prudes boiling.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, Lari Pittman's massive illustrated books go on view at The Huntington, a seminal Hollywood book from the '70s is republished, drawings from outsider artist Charles Steffen come to Los Angeles for the first time, and more.
Art
It’s not easy to summarize Roberto Burle Marx and the many facets of his creative output.
Film
Recently, I had to explain to a friend without internet access who Werner Herzog is.
Art
This week, a film screening fights back against the violence of ethnography, an exhibition shows off the artists who run South Florida's alternative art spaces, the Morgan reunites a Hans Memling triptych, and more.
Art
Sidney Herbert Sime's art seems to capture the point at which a dream becomes a nightmare.
Art
After the singularity, how will we explain the internet pastime of going down a Wikihole to our cyborg children?