Art
The current group show at Canada, Anthropocene, casts a very wide net. The term, which means “new human,” is the name for the current geological period, which began with the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture, leading to the foundation of formal societies.
Opinion
Global warming is a phrase that pops up just about everywhere, ensuring that we confront our planet's worsening climate changes. Designer Milton Glaser, however, is aiming to stress that the reality of the environmental situation is much worse than the term 'warming' would suggest.
News
Some politicians are concerned that the new initiative to build better-designed United States embassies isn't just expensive, it's putting employees in danger.
In Brief
One of London's expansive resources of cultural and art history may face an uncertain future and is currently the center of controversy.
Art
CHICAGO — Large, bright photographs currently fill Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, printed from Kodachrome slides that date to the 1950s and ’60s. The photographs were curated by artist Jeff Phillips but feature subjects unrelated to him — he stumbled upon the slides in 2011 at a
News
Chapman Brothers censored in Rome, selfie concerns for London's National Gallery, a lost trove of African art in Missouri, and more from the week in art news.
Art
Anyone can visit Tate Britain without leaving her home thanks to Google Art Project, but how about doing so while its galleries are dark, and furthermore, with greater authority?
Art
Amie Siegel's three-part installation on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Provenance," traces the rehabilitation of ruined Le Corbusier furniture from Chandigarh, India, as upscale appetences for chic global lifestyles.
Art
This week the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, announced that its Digital Image Collection is now under a Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Opinion
Last night, in Ferguson, Missouri, police in riot gear entered residential neighbourhoods and lobbed teargas, flash bombs, rubber bullets, and noise cannons (also known as LRAD or Long Range Acoustic Devices) at people who were gathered peacefully to protest the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old, Mi
News
Three street artists have filed a lawsuit against Terry Gilliam, alleging that the director "misappropriated" their copyrighted collaborative work in his upcoming film The Zero Theorem.
In Brief
This week, a large 17th-century Baroque painting by Italian artist Guercino went missing in the northern Italian city of Modena.