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What Music-Playing Plants Can Teach Us About Consciousness
The Music of the Plants project, created by a spiritual eco-community, investigates how humans can live more consciously and harmoniously with the natural environment.
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Aural Art Composed from Random Phone Calls
The artist Phil Collins has created a fraught, evocative listening experience that both isolates and connects.
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Making Out the Black Body in Swirling Images
When looking at the pieces in William Villalongo's Keep On Pushing exhibition, the question I'm faced with is: How do these bodies cohere?
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An Appreciation of California's Homegrown Tattoo Style
In the context of its exhibition on the history of tattoos, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County will take a closer look at the Black and Gray style that came out of East LA.
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The 2017 Turner Prize Exhibition Puts Politics Front and Center
Diverse backgrounds are integral to this year's exhibition of the artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize, as, in each of the four micro-exhibitions, they are wielded to address pressing social issues.
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A Gleaming Shrine for Oscar Wilde
David McDermott and Peter McGough have built a shrine to Wilde in the basement of a church in Greenwich Village.
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Imagining the Love Letters of JPMorgan's CEO
Nathaniel Sullivan's While the Nation Went Bankrupt imagines the life of the 0.01%.
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A Day of Healing Through Mending Clothes
Bring your discarded sewing, or the sewing you never started, or the sewing you wish you knew how to do, for a day of personal and community mending.
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A Digital Drawing that Morphs with Real-time Meteorological Data
Claire Malrieux's digital artwork "Climat Général" at the Collège des Bernardins features abstract forms that shift in response to weather data, evoking humanity's environmental impact.
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A Mexican-Born Artist, Activist, and DACA Recipient Considers an Uncertain Future
Maria de los Ángeles discusses her work, her relationship to her adopted country, and what DACA means in her life.
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A Eulogy for One of NYC's Oldest Manhole Covers
The vanishing of an 1866 Croton Aqueduct manhole cover recalls the fleetingness of historic infrastructure heritage on New York City's streets.
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Bark Paintings That Were Pivotal Documents in an Aboriginal Sea Rights Case Go on View
The bark paintings in Gapu-Monuk Saltwater: Journey to Sea Country at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney were pivotal documents in a major case for indigenous sea rights.