Art

Museums Make Space for Public Programs on Stoops and in Parks

Examples of this trend can be seen at several major New York art institutions. Three in particular are exemplary: BRIC, Queens Museum, and the Whitney Museum.

Art

Tracking Artists' Expeditions, from Glacier Surveys to a Search for Nixon's Missing Moon Rocks

Art is often an act of venturing into the unknown, of starting something without knowing the outcome.

News

A Museum for the Blocky Graphics of Early Computer Viruses

When the first PC viruses appeared in the 1980s, they not only tampered with machine systems, but also filled the screens of home computers with technicolor text and flashy graphics or animations.

Art

Updating Fragonard with an Indigenous Perspective

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Scroll quickly enough past a photograph of Kent Monkman’s new installation, “Scent of a Beaver,” at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities, and you might mistake it for a painting.

Art

Talismanic and Tenacious Goddesses that Resist Femininity

Rekha Rodwittiya’s iconic female figures loom large.

Art

Folk Art Relics from the Golden Age of America's Secret Societies

A strange visual language developed from the 18th to the 20th century behind the closed doors of American secret societies.

Art

Four Parrots in a Cage Isn't Art! Four Parrots in a Cage Isn't Art!

MIAMI — Imagine a group of four-year-olds in a room with glass windows: Cleo, Zach, David, and Jany.

Art

The Group Working Behind the Scenes to Diversify Museum Staffs

“I would never have gotten this opportunity without the support of the Museum Hue community,” said Stephanie PhaFa Roy, Visitor Services and Digital Content Manager at MoCADA.

Announcement

Meet the Next Generation of Creative Thinkers at MICA’s 2016 Grad Show

MICA invites you to join the next generation of creative thinkers – artists, designers, filmmakers, educators, curators, and critics – as they demonstrate the power and possibilities of contemporary art and design.

Art

The Otherworldly Modern Homes that Were Never Built

While other modern architects imagined a future of single-family homes that resembled Rubik's Cubes, with boxy exteriors and primary-colored walls, Austrian-American artist and architect Frederick Kiesler considered a return to cave dwelling.

Art

Testing the Possibilities of Online Education with Museum MOOCs

MOOCs (massive open online courses) have been both hailed as a possible solution to providing low-cost, high-quality education and derided as a destructive reallocation of resources from public education to private corporations.

Comics

Award Shows I Would Actually Watch

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