In Brief

Carsten Höller Wraps World’s Longest Slide Around Anish Kapoor’s London Tower

This week, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London announced that "the world's longest and tallest tunnel slide" will wrap around Anish Kapoor's "ArcelorMittal Orbit."

News

Art Movements

This week in art news: The Rijksmuseum acquired a rare medieval chain, the UK wavered over issuing a visa for Ai Weiwei, and Peter Brant sold his ownership of Art in America.

Art

Gulf Labor Hips Venice Biennale Visitors to UAE Labor Abuses

VENICE — On Wednesday the Gulf Labor Coalition held the first in a series of four panels it is organizing as part of the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Community

A View from the Easel

Artist studios in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Ohio.

Art

The Only Five Public Statues of Historic Women in NYC

Setting aside the allegorical females and fictional heroines like Lewis Carroll's Alice, who are the historic women honored in New York's public statuary?

Interview

Nick Cave on “Tackling Really Hard Issues” with Art

"I’m interested in coming to Detroit — providing you this opportunity to be up close and personal with the work in this static format, but then also being able to get you into this performative experience."

Art

Sum of the Arts

Height (in feet) of the rogue wave depicted in Katsushika Hokusai's famed "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (c.1830–32) = 32–39

Art

Idyllic Illustrations of Daily Postwar Life

In 1915, during World War I, the printing company Wills & Hepworth began publishing "pure and healthy literature" for children marked with a ladybird logo, giving rise to the London-based publishing company now known as Ladybird Books.

Art

From Obsessive Drawings to Sound Sculptures, Mark Mothersbaugh’s Unexpected Art Career

MINNEAPOLIS — Mark Mothersbaugh is so much a part of pop culture that even if you aren’t a fan of his punk band Devo, you’re probably familiar with his music.

Art

Artworks Cobbled Together from Immigrant Experiences

Art about identity politics, personal history, and cultural heritage is seen all too rarely in Bushwick galleries, where formal and material concerns tend to dominate.

Art

The Evolution of the Watermelon, Captured in Still Lifes

The watermelons of our summers are not the watermelons of yesteryear, as demonstrated by a 17th-century painting by Italian artist Giovanni Stanchi.

In Brief

Vandal Who Smashed Colorado Town Sculpture "Destroyed the Fun"

A public sculpture in Durango, Colorado, that has divided and entertained residents of the small town since its installation last August was destroyed earlier this week and the vandal remains at large, according to the Durango Herald.