Art
A New Orleans project that started in 2011 as an experiment with musical architecture is planning a return, although this time with roving ramshackle structures that can eventually become a permanent soundscape in the city.
Art
Since Jodi Cobb joined National Geographic in 1977 as the magazine's first female staff photographer, more and more women photographers have contributed images to the publication in essays on human rights, conflict zones, the minds of teenagers, epidemics, life in the remote corners of the world, an
News
Step into a restaurant in Korea, and sometimes in Koreatowns, and you'll find a simple button next to your table. Press the button, and the waiter or waitress shows up. It's an elegant solution to a perennial problem: getting the attention of extremely busy people.
Opinion
France has passed a law meant to protect independent bookstores and stop the monolith of Amazon from taking over book sales in the country.
Art
The newly open-the-public Timothy Leary papers at the New York Public Library is a fascinating trove.
Opinion
LA-based artist Daniel Rehn culls from internet messages posted between 1988 and 1994 and sends them out regularly on his Twitter account.
Art
BOSTON — A six-foot-tall sculpture of a figure wearing a ghillie suit, a collaborative work by artists George Heintz and Victoria Duffee, hides in the corner of the windowless Distillery Gallery. The way the figure is installed, he stares curiously at a photograph printed on Tri Poplin of a tropical
Announcement
The New-York Historical Society celebrates the centennial of "The Armory Show" with a retrospective exhibition that unites pieces from the original event by Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin, as well as American impressionist Childe Hassam, urban realis
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Opinion
As a Canadian, I'm rather happy to see a beaver in New York, particularly on a day when Canadian author Alice Munro is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Art
While the drive-in movie theaters of Kodak-colored dreams are cluttered with classic cars, their heavy bodies dunked in primary colors, the cars at Empire Drive-In are all recent cast-offs, the engines in their wrecked bodies silent, personal artifacts from previous owners left behind on the floorbo
Art
Radical Presence gives a great taste of some of the work done by black artists working in performance over the past five decades. And one of the best things about it is that it’s not just a static archive.
Opinion
The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies is an online-only museum that celebrates the artistic relics of yesteryear.