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8 Artists to Watch from Bushwick Open Studios 2017
From collections of African textiles and subway station paint chips, to street photography and — of course — colorful figurative paintings, we picked some of our favorites from BOS 2017.
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Environmentalists Proclaim Great Pacific Garbage Patch a Country, Design National Identity
Can an island of garbage become a nation? The founders of "Trash Isles" are working to realize their vision and raise awareness about this environmental scourge.
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Visitors Were Invited to Curate a Museum of Modern Nature and Here’s What Sprouted
The Wellcome Collection's Museum of Modern Nature is a crowdsourced reflection on our personal relationships to the natural world in the 21st century.
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A Six-Acre Civic Commons Is Coming to Detroit’s North End
The design duo Akoaki and the Oakland Avenue Urban Farm have opened the first phase of an ambitious project known as the Detroit Cultivator.
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Getting Comfortable with Sexy and Silly Art
SEX, an exhibition at Chicago's Lawrence & Clark gallery, challenged me to reckon with the cultural inheritance of my Taiwanese American upbringing.
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A Museum Devoted to Immigrant Histories Opens in Boyle Heights
The Boyle Heights Museum opens this weekend with an exhibition focused on the history of Mexican repatriation during the Great Depression.
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This Archtober, Spend the Month Exploring NYC's Exceptional Buildings
The annual, monthlong festival Archtober offers tours, lectures, and events surrounding the eclectic architecture and designs of the city.
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24 Hours of Experimental and Explicit Queer Films
Ticket-holders are free to come and go as they please during this marathon screening of queer pornography and avant-garde films.
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Skill Wins Over Vision at the Art Students League Instructors’ Exhibition
Founded in 1875, the Art Students League of New York mounts an annual exhibition of art by their instructors, so we took a look.
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Jill Magid Takes a Calder Mobile for a Spin at the Whitney Museum
Magid will activate one of Calder's standing mobile sculptures whose base and top were mismatched and separated in the 1960s.
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Experimental Film from Chile and Brazil Screens at LA’s Filmforum
Los Angeles Filmforum screens Raúl Ruiz's short films focused on anthropology alongside works by his Brazilian contemporaries Arthur Omar and Anna Maria Maiolino.
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Art Amid Governors Island's Architectural Decay
In its 10th edition, the Governors Island Art Fair in New York expands its installations into 1920s barracks.