Art

The Artist Bringing Neon Icebergs to the Arctic Circle

ISTANBUL — Bahar Yürükoğlu makes icebergs bleed neon colors.

Art

Boston Artist Builds "Smallest House in the World," Rents It on Airbnb

By the logic of the tiny house movement, a whimsical architectural response to the housing crisis, tinier is better, right?

In Brief

China Will Publicly Shame Vandals Who Tag Mount Everest Base Camp

For those temped to leave graffiti on the base camp of the Chinese side of Mount Everest, known as Mount Qomolangma, think again: your name may appear on a public list, distributed to and publicized by news outlets.

Art

A Murder Mystery Set in a Finnish Art Museum

HELSINKI — "In the final days of a damp, misty November, the body of a young woman is found in the icy embrace of the waters off Kaivopuisto Park."

Comics

My First Art Studio

Of course, it was illegal.

Opinion

Required Reading

This week, bell hooks on Beyoncé, photographs from behind, makeshift memorials to gun violence in New York, Philip-Lorca diCorcia on the art market.

Opinion

Weekend Words: Tip

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."

Books

Reader’s Diary: Kristin Ross's 'May ’68 and Its Afterlives'

Some thought the Arab Spring could not have happened without social media. But the necessity makes the means and not vice versa. May ’68 didn’t need Facebook. They had transistor radios.

Art

End of the Road: Matt Bollinger at Zürcher Gallery

In his third and best exhibition, Matt Bollinger: Independence, MO, at Zürcher Gallery, the artist continues to remember and invent aspects of his youth, family and friends, while growing up in and around Independence, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City.

Art

Sexual Abstraction: Judy Ledgerwood’s Recent Paintings

If, as Amy Sillman has said, “The elephant in the room is sex,” Judy Ledgerwood’s paintings ask the viewer: What exactly do you think you are looking at?

Art

Hanne Darboven: Repetition

Hanne Darboven, though considered a visual artist, considered herself, first and foremost, a writer.

Art

Class Plus Sass: Bunny Rogers’ ‘Columbine Cafeteria’

Is art just war conducted by other means?