Art
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Contrary to his gentle voice and friendly manner, Lavar Munroe’s first U.S. museum exhibition is filled with grotesque half-animal, half-human figures wielding hostile gloves and knives like predators.
Books
Griffin Moss, a lonely painter in London, and his mysterious muse Sabine Strohem were first introduced in the 1991 best-seller Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence, an epistolary novel composed of extensively illustrated postcards and removable handwritten letters by author and artist
In Brief
The woman who stabbed a fairgoer at Art Basel Miami Beach last year has been deported to her native China and will not be able to return to the US again.
Comics
What does that mean again?
Art
PORTLAND, Ore. — If you type the words “Native American” into Google image search, the majority of the results will be Edward Curtis photographs
News
The Carnegie Institution for Science announced this week that one researcher's dive into a collection of glass photographic plates turned up an unexpected image from 1917 that indicates the presence of an exoplanetary system.
Art
Elisabeth Hase documented Germany's transition from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich and its postwar devastation.
Art
Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait.
News
A new report by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation investigates a stark disparity in Poland’s art academies: women constitute 77% of students but only 22% of professors.
News
Nearly 400 portfolios of contemporary Iraqi artists are now available for you to explore, courtesy of a new and publicly accessible online database — the first of its kind.
Art
Fischli and Weiss's sprawling retrospective creates a viewing experience that is funny, frustrating, belabored, and, ultimately, I think, productively unsettling.
Performance
"Maybe there’s a physicist sitting right beside you, who can explain this better than we do, but we're in the business of art, so we’ll make a metaphor," sings Hai-Ting Chinn in Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments.