Art

Why Don't More Americans Go to Museums?

In the past we may have turned to pollsters or psychics, while today we turn to Twitter to look at the hive mind and discover why.

Opinion

How We Talk About the Dead

Imagine a person like this: “one of a handful of people who can truly be said to have changed the way we think and write about art, fashion, culture, and celebrity.”

In Brief

New Digital Archaeology Effort Attempts to Capture Cultural Heritage Before It's Gone

As ISIS continues to destroy the world's cultural heritage, archaeologists and other onlookers continue to scramble to find ways to counter the destruction.

Art

The Erotics of the Everyday

MEXICO CITY — Martin Soto Climent’s solo show, now on view at Proyectos Monclova, illustrates humanity’s perverse ability to sexualize everyday objects.

Art

Revitalizing a Dying Region of Rural Japan with Art

Every spring, a resurrection occurs in the Echigo-Tsumari area of Japan’s Niigata prefecture.

Art

Sum of the Arts: Lost Civilizations

Number of large-scale bronzes that survive from ancient Greece = ~200

Art

Japan Wipes Away Pretentiousness with Art Festival Devoted to Toilets

Relieve yourself of the conventional biennials and triennials of the art world with the first art festival dedicated entirely to bathrooms.

Art

350 Years After the Great Plague, Its Skeletal Reaper Remains

Death as a skeletal grim reaper was cemented as a symbol during the plagues in Europe, which stretched from the 14th to 18th centuries.

Art

Portraits of Contemplative and Cocky Poultry

For most of her four-decade-long career, photographer Jean Pagliuso focused her lens on the fashion industry and on Hollywood, producing images of celebrities meant for magazines and movie posters.

Art

Wayfinding through Ruins and Castles in a Governors Island Art Intervention

It's unlikely you'd notice any of the art in Governors Island's Visitors without a map, as it's hiding in an abandoned swimming pool, a nondescript rock in a fortress, and those hulking billboards urban eyes are trained to ignore.

News

British Library Rejects Taliban Archive Donation

It isn’t every day that one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions refuses to host a massive digital archive of great historical significance.

Interview

Artists Interpret a Colonial Collection of 125,660 Indonesian Specimens

Intended or not, the words used around collections set agendas, and what is collected and what remains absent is always political.