Books
Sick of Being Human, a Designer Transformed Himself into a Goat
What if you could escape the pains of daily existence by transforming into a goat?
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Art
A Luminescent Installation Responds to Twitter Users’ Mood Swings
The exhibition proposes two core questions: Is this type of city compatible with the needs of its inhabitants, and is this kind of anonymous and automated policing comparable to public administration and democratic politics?
Art
To Cite or to Steal? When a Scholarly Project Turns Up in a Gallery
It's early enough in my career that I still get a thrill whenever I see my work shared online.
Art
Shooting Down the Purely Aesthetic Aspirations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Piers
SULZANO, Italy — I decided to make the journey from my home in Rome to Sulzano in northern Italy to judge the merits and pitfalls of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “Floating Piers” — an almost two-mile long floating walkway situated on Lake Iseo — for myself.
Books
Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Butterfly Illustrations
At the end of Vladimir Nabokov's poem "Pale Fire," he describes how "White butterflies turn lavender as they / Pass through its shade where gently seems to sway / The phantom of my little daughter's swing."
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The Business of Making Custom Clouds in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Somewhere in the city, there are white Mercedes Benzes, peace signs, and hearts floating up into the sky.
Art
Picasso and Matisse Trade Blows in a Cubism vs. Fauvism Bar Brawl
Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were the 20th century’s greatest artistic frenemies.
Art
In the Jungle of Henri Rousseau's Imagination
PARIS — Henri Rousseau is art history’s best-known naïf painter.
Comics
The Epic Journey of Making Art
Last week two friends and I hiked the Devil's Path in a day.
News
Performers in ICA Miami Show Claim They Were Pressured to Penetrate Themselves with Rope
In Laura Lima's current exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Miami — the Brazilian artist's first solo museum show in the US — a braided, blue industrial nylon rope snakes through the building's massive atrium, crawling over its white columns and beams to form an imposing, tangled w
Art
Nature’s Dark Edge
To get to Y Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you have to climb five long flights of rickety stairs.
Art
Building with Bricks Made from Industrial Waste
In August, a pair of architects will move into their new home in Rotterdam. Its rising walls are built of tan-colored bricks that, to the eye, seem like your typical building materials, but they are actually made entirely out of waste.