Art
A death mask of Napoleon; life-size pregnant women, body cavities open and displaying the miracle of life; body parts afflicted with symptoms of syphilis and leprosy — these are just a few of the wax wonders currently on view at Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum.
Comics
Really smart guys like Socrates were immortalized in art.
Art
NANTES, France — Benjamin Franklin’s maxim that “you can do anything you set your mind to” could not ring truer for the French self-taught filmmaker and artist Guy Brunet.
Art
An unfinished film can be any number of things.
News
Art activist group BP or not BP? yesterday staged a double intervention at the British Museum to protest BP's sponsorship of Sunken cities, a new exhibition showcasing artifacts from two ancient, submerged Egyptian ports.
Art
Stepping into Jessi Reaves's show at Bridget Donahue gallery, I was at once slightly thrown by the sense of having entered a showroom display.
In Brief
Iran has arrested eight female models for posting photos on Instagram that authorities have deemed "un-Islamic."
Art
On Wednesday, at Manhattan's famed Radio City Music Hall, artist Carrie Mae Weems delivered a powerful commencement address to 1,100 graduates of the School of Visual Arts.
Art
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — At last week's reopening of the Yale Center for British Art, Matthew Hargraves, chief curator of art collections, called its Long Gallery "one of the great undiscovered spaces of the 20th century."
In Brief
After six months, 17 Old Master paintings stolen from Verona's Museo di Castelvecchio have turned up on an island in Ukraine.
Art
HONG KONG — Maurice Benayoun’s new show at the Osage Gallery in Hong Kong, Just Dig It, consists of five latticed, skeletal metal sculptures capped by circular projector screens showing various 2D projections.
Poetry
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected one poem by Danniel Schoonebeek for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.