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Abstraction that Invites Speculation
When I walked into Emily Roysdon’s latest exhibition, If Only a Wave, at Participant Inc., I initially felt like I might not be able to decipher the work.
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An Interactive Kandinsky to Consider and Destroy the Elements of Abstract Art
A ghostly bird emerges from an envelope and a pair of triangles transform into a dog in "Animated Kandinsky," an interactive version of Wassily Kandinsky's vibrant 1932 "Decisive Pink."
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Feeling at Home with Alison Bechdel
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When it comes to creating an installation of the work of cartoonist Alison Bechdel, a curator is faced with more than the usual conundrums of what merits inclusion.
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Searching for Ourselves Amid the Monstrous
Beautiful Beast, a show that opened at the New York Academy of Art last week, is situated at the intersection of the monstrous and sublime.
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Looking for the Incredible in a Simple Moment
Ninety-nine years after the first home was built in Berthoud, Colorado, a 39-year-old photographer walked the streets of this small town at night.
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A Brief Look at the 2015 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts
In our first review of the 2015 Oscar-nominated short films, the imaginative animated shorts led things off. With less than a week to go until the awards themselves, it’s time to get cozy with their often stonier cousins, the live-action shorts.
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When the Art Just Can't Compete with the Architecture
PORTLAND, Oregon — Entering Disjecta Contemporary Art Center's main space feels more like visiting a dance hall than a gallery, with its vaulted timber ceiling and 15-foot-high walls.
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Architecture that Integrates the Human Body
PARIS — The Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris commemorates its 30th anniversary with “Musings on a Glass Box,” a two-part immersive installation by controversial New York design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro that nearly empties the museum’s ground floor.
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Miniature Landscapes Through the Looking Glass
Brooklyn-based artist Patrick Jacobs’s aptly titled show Come Closer to Me, at Williamsburg gallery Pierogi, beckons visitors to do just that — to step closer in order to discern extraordinarily detailed etchings of fungal rings and take in miniature pastoral landscapes.
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The Minimalist Beauty of a Renaissance-Era Geometry Book
Perspectiva Corporum Regularium (Perspective of regular solids), created in 1568 by German goldsmith and printmaker Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508–1585), is a study in shapes inspired by the five Platonic solids: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
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A Century After Being Cast into the River Thames, a Celebrated Typeface Reemerges
Nearly a century after all 2,600 pounds of it were cast into the murky water of London's River Thames, what remains of the lost Doves Press type has been recovered by divers.
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5 Trendsetting Video Games from IndieCade East
This past weekend, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens hosted Indiecade East 2015 for its third year of independent games, talks, and community networking.