Art
Visualizing Disease: A Survey of Public Health Posters
Striking visuals have long been essential to disease awareness, using art to convey the invisible menace of a microscopic virus and its destructive symptoms.
Latest
Art
Relics of Slavery and Hate, on Display in New York
The objects on display in the New-York Historical Society's Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War exhibition tell the harrowing story of slavery in America through textiles.
News
What Does Color Smell Like?
That color and smell have a sensory connection is long-established, but there's debate about whether associating the smell of strawberries with red or smoke with black is something structured in our brains, based in language, or resulting from experience.
Art
Kazimir Malevich's Little-Known Perfume Bottle
Before artists are lionized, canonized, given major retrospectives at major museums, they are people. And when they are people, they are often poor, and so they must find ways to make money. Paul Gauguin tried his hand as a stockbroker, Henri Rousseau worked as a toll collector for most of his life,
Art
After Blockbuster Kickstarter, Electric Objects Is Appealing to Artists
It's long been a dream of digital art lovers to easily display internet-based art, so it was no surprise that Electric Objects, a company developing a dedicated high-definition screen and integrated computer to bring art from the internet into the home, quickly blew past its initial Kickstarter goal
In Brief
Amid Destruction, US Institutions Hold Syria Museums Workshop in Undisclosed Location
As cultural and artistic heritage in Syria continues to face significant losses, two United States institutions have partnered with the Syrian Interim Government's "Heritage Task Force" to share strategies for mitigating the dangers faced by museums and other sites.
Art
Moving Through Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
PARIS — I tend to prefer my European gesamtkunstwerk interior spaces lush, flamboyantly mannerist, funny, obscurantist, or noisy.
Books
The Existential Adventures of a Daredevil Escape Artist
Years before NYC-based artist and writer Paul Pope was garnering Eisner Awards for an intricate, boundary-challenging Batman series, he was making a name for himself working at a Japanese comics publisher. At night, however, Pope was crafting the story of how a circus’s sinewy escape artist earns hi
Comics
Do Artists Need Silence?
Distractions are everywhere. How do you respond?
Art
Cinema as a Ruin in Madrid
MADRID — The moving image, now at the center stage of contemporary art, not only as video and film but as ‘artists’ cinema,’ was once a fringe movement at a time when recorded tapes were difficult to manipulate and even more difficult to preserve so that many of those early works are now irretrievab
In Brief
A New Service Promises an Artistic Afterlife
In search of the next Vivian Maier? Comb through garage sales no further.
Art
In Times Square, Trading Shares of Chinese Art
"You ever heard of Bitcoin?," John Wallace asks, pointing to his companion. "You're looking at it."