Art
Jacob Riis may have set his house on fire twice, and himself aflame once, as he perfected the new 19th-century flash photography technique, but when the magnesium powder erupted with a white, blinding light, he illuminated some of the darkest corners of Manhattan's impoverished tenements.
Art
This week, you can protest a real estate summit outside the Brooklyn Museum, learn about the history of Chinatown restaurants, catch performance art at Performa, and much more.
Books
Ikebana, which translates to "living flowers," is the Japanese art of floral arrangement that dates back to the 16th century.
News
On November 20, on the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), communities all over the world will hold memorials for those who lost their lives in 2015 in acts of transphobic violence.
Performance
The designs and theories of Buckminster Fuller may seem like quaint retrofuturism today, but there was a time when his utopian ideas seemed to hold the key to peaceful and sustainable human existence on earth — at least he thought so.
Art
The latest product of Japan's tiny house obsession is the Muji Hut, just unveiled at Tokyo Design Week.
News
Artist Charles Krafft is back — and this time, rather than attempting to hide his white nationalist beliefs, he appears to be embracing them.
Art
CHICAGO — A poison ivy leaf is scary, if not panic-inducing.
In Brief
Launched in 1977 by NASA, the Golden Record, a copper phonograph LP, was intended to provide a picture of life on planet Earth to any aliens who might encounter the spacecraft
News
Archaeologists restoring a cathedral in Zvenigorod, an old town 40 miles west of Moscow, recently stumbled upon stacks of centuries-old documents hoarded by an unexpected breed of collectors: birds.
Opinion
Dear Frank Stella, Your object-paintings choke me.
In Brief
The skull is a universal symbol of mortality, appearing in artworks by everyone from Hans Holbein the Younger and Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.