Art

Nowhere to Go in a Desert of Images

In Xaviera Simmon’s CODED exhibition, now on view at The Kitchen, there are a lot of intersections between the human, sexualized (and colored) body, and wide, visually monotonous land- and seascapes.

Comics

Morning in America

Told you.

Art

Figures of Steel that Embody Our Fears

Antony Gormley has consistently plied a practice that's about articulations and permutations of the human body, often fabricating his forms in materials that can withstand the vicissitudes of the natural environmental.

Interview

An “Act of Love”: Knitted Portraits of Feminist Artists and Their Work

Kate Just, an American-born Australia-based artist, has long been committed to making feminist work that examines the human body experience.

Interview

A Symbolic Wound Takes Shape in Norway to Remember the 2011 Massacre

It has been exactly five years since Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people in Norway.

News

Art Movements

This week in art news: Gagosian Gallery agreed to pay $4.28 million in back taxes to the state of New York, Jeff Koons laid off 15 studio workers who were attempting to unionize, and Florentijn Hofman unveiled a giant bear sculpture made of conifer tree branches.

Art

Creating a Skeletal Symmetry from a 19th-Century Collection of Imperfect Skulls

Robbers, prostitutes, and fallen tightrope walkers: the craniums in the Hyrtl Skull Collection in the Mütter Museum at College of Physicians of Philadelphia are fractured remains of imperfect lives.

Art

All in the Smooth, White, Vacant-Eyed Family of Contemporary Figurative Sculpture

PHILADELPHIA — Once upon a time, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, there lived a family of sculptures. They were all smooth, white, and vacant-eyed.

Art

How Chagall, Sendak, Hockney, and Other Artists Staged the Fantasies of 'The Magic Flute'

As an opera where a colossal snake and enchanted instrument play a pivotal role, perhaps it's no surprise Mozart's The Magic Flute inspired some fantastic set and costume designs since its debut in 1791.

Art

Making Art from the Materials Left Behind at the US–Mexico Border

Along the 1,969-mile-long border between the United States and Mexico lie sneakers, teddy bears, toothbrushes, water jugs, tuna cans, and other miscellany — the objects left behind by migrants seeking better lives in a neighboring land.

Art

Algorithm Clones Artists’ Styles, Turning Videos into Living Paintings

Have you ever wished you could watch Pixar’s Ice Age rendered in the post-Impressionist painting style of Vincent van Gogh, or Star Wars in the expressionistic style of Edvard Munch’s The Scream?

Art

A Nuclear Warning Designed to Last 10,000 Years

Consider a wanderer 10,000 years in the future discovering a strange construction of granite thorns in the New Mexico desert, their points weathered by centuries, their shadows stretching at sinister angles.