In Brief
In response to Austria giving migrants a red light, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson decided to create a “Green light,” a crystalline polyhedral LED light made from recycled materials.
Art
When Richard Pryor strode through an audience of fans and celebrities at the Hollywood Palladium on December 9, 1981, the comedian — always renowned for his candor and vulnerability — was exposed in an altogether new way.
Comics
It never ends.
Opinion
This week, archeology politics, critical thinking and painting, futurist terms, #terroristselfie, how people spend time online, and more.
Opinion
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand and there you are.
Books
Debt is the crux where economics and morality intersect.
Art
I first became aware of Carole Seborovski’s work in the mid-1980s, when she was a geometric artist working on paper with a restrained palette.
Art
Why doesn’t the Whitney Museum of American Art inaugurate a series of exhibitions in honor of Herman Melville? It would certainly be fitting given the museum’s recent change of address.
Art
SALEM, Mass. — The Dutch East India Company wrested control of the Asian spice trade from the Spanish and Portuguese, went on to own virtually all of Indonesia, and monopolized trade with Japan for 200 years.
Art
From the beginning the idea has been to create beauty from that which is readily available in a world of hardship and extreme scarcity.
Art
If the exquisitely mercurial art of Audra Wolowiec can be reduced to a single factor, it would be breath.
Art
As Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, the Museum of the Moving Image's auspicious foray into exhibiting contemporary art, wryly suggests, it might be film and its iconic images that help stave off decay.