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Making Art from Narco Culture
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.
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The Yak Brains and Crushed Insects That Made Tibetan Buddhist Bookmaking Beautiful
From the earthy mineral pigments ground from azurite to paint a sky, to paper given its luster from yak brains, the creation of Tibetan Buddhist texts is being examined down to its bare materials at the University of Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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The Man Who Feted the YBAs Before Their Fame
LONDON — Genius, unskilled manager, talented art dealer, troublemaker: the figure of Joshua Compston is one of inconsistencies and contradictions, even 18 years after his death.
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Malevich in his Milieu
LONDON — The Tate Modern’s Malevich: Revolutionary of Russian Art exhibition explores the career of Kazimir Malevich, presenting a complete image of the painter, sculptor, teacher, and revolutionary member of the early Soviet avant-garde, whose trajectory as an innovative artist mirrored the tumultu
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Making Art Feel at Home
The two rooms of Jason McCoy Gallery currently feature works spanning a wide variety of styles and mediums — from functional design objects, such as wallpaper and stools, to charcoal drawings and fine art textiles — for the group show Domesticity.
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ArtRx LA
This week Los Angeles seems to be all about performance and performativity.
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How a Turn-of-the-Century Painter Influenced Military Camouflage
The newest exhibition at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York examines the influence of nature on military camouflage.
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Early High-Speed Photographs Offer Incredible Details of Motion
Back in the 1930s, an electrical engineer from Nebraska, working at MIT, developed the first "strobe" flash for photography, changing the way motion is documented.
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A Fictional Childhood, Filmed in Real Time
The big bet pays off in Boyhood, much like the risks of early life: making friends, changing the way we think and look, the things we do.
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Humanizing a Historic Brain Collection
A curious thing about medical collections is how dehumanizing they can be.
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Curating the Mind of John Altoon
LOS ANGELES — In John Altoon's current retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, curator Carol S. Eliel organizes a view of this Los Angeles artist's work that spans from his early beginnings in art — heavy strokes of more Cubist-type work — to his delicate, sexually charged ink and wat
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ArtRx NYC
This week is all about transporting yourself.