Art
Last night's opening of Khaled Jarrar's two-part exhibition No Exit at Whitebox Art Center and the related 10 Days, 10 Ideas workshops at Undercurrent Projects was a window into the art world realities facing Palestinian artists in the midst of the escalating violence in Gaza, the West Bank, and Isr
Books
Two rural communities have ominously declared themselves the "Gateway to Death Valley" — Baker, California and Beatty, Nevada — each isolated as the last stop before miles of harsh landscape.
Opinion
A new web app created by the research and development wing of the New York Times allow users to create graphs tracing the appearance of individual terms or phrases in the paper over the course of its century-and-a-half history.
In Brief
New York may lean on its cultural institutions to encourage adoption of a planned municipal identity card for undocumented New Yorkers, the New York Times reported.
Art
A known face at film archives around the world, Austrian filmmaker and architect Gustav Deutsch is one of found footage’s most astute and assiduous artists.
News
A photograph of a nude male in a downtown Manhattan gallery's front window has drawn protests from neighborhood parents and schoolteachers requesting its removal.
News
Rodin and Degas sculptures possibly found in Gurlitt horde, "Girl with the Pearl Earring" traveling no more, Corcoran opponents get their day(s) in court, and more from the week in art news.
In Brief
In honor of Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, aka Rokudenashi-ko ("Good-for-nothing girl"), Jon Stewart premiered a new segment on The Daily Show last night: "We May Have Problems, But at Least We're Not Jailing Artists for 3D Printing Their Vaginas."
Art
LOS ANGELES — Minor White’s photographs offer a portrait of a life lived in collaboration with the natural world, other people, and the great beyond. This collection of crisp photographs make up the retrospective Manifestations of the Spirit.
Art
Back in the 1930s, a group of amateur climbers scaled the centuries-old Gothic stonework and shaky water pipes to reach the spires of the Cambridge colleges.
Art
Fifteen years ago, the Mexican-American artist Eduardo Sarabia traveled from his home in California to Guadalajara, the Mexican city where the most powerful drug traffickers’ families are rumored to reside.
Books
There is a loose tribe living at nature's margins in the United States, slaughtering goats raised by hand at Idaho's Lost River and picking cherries growing wild in California's Marble Mountain Wilderness.