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Talismanic and Tenacious Goddesses that Resist Femininity
Rekha Rodwittiya’s iconic female figures loom large.
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Folk Art Relics from the Golden Age of America's Secret Societies
A strange visual language developed from the 18th to the 20th century behind the closed doors of American secret societies.
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Four Parrots in a Cage Isn't Art! Four Parrots in a Cage Isn't Art!
MIAMI — Imagine a group of four-year-olds in a room with glass windows: Cleo, Zach, David, and Jany.
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The Group Working Behind the Scenes to Diversify Museum Staffs
“I would never have gotten this opportunity without the support of the Museum Hue community,” said Stephanie PhaFa Roy, Visitor Services and Digital Content Manager at MoCADA.
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The Otherworldly Modern Homes that Were Never Built
While other modern architects imagined a future of single-family homes that resembled Rubik's Cubes, with boxy exteriors and primary-colored walls, Austrian-American artist and architect Frederick Kiesler considered a return to cave dwelling.
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Testing the Possibilities of Online Education with Museum MOOCs
MOOCs (massive open online courses) have been both hailed as a possible solution to providing low-cost, high-quality education and derided as a destructive reallocation of resources from public education to private corporations.
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Ecological Art that Miniaturizes (and Minimizes) Climate Change
PARIS — Climats Artificiels at the Espace Fondation EDF is an impertinent and multigenerational group show of contemporary art — heavy on miniature biosphere mockups — that raises the question of the current value of ironic artificiality.
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From a Helicopter, a Photographer Finds Novel Angles on NYC
There's a reason why thousands of tourists wait in hours-long lines to One World Trade Center’s observation deck or to peer out from the Statue of Liberty’s crown: seeing New York City from the sky is an indescribable sight.
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A Belgian Choreographer Navigates the Israel-Palestine Conflict
LIÉGE, Belgium — As can be seen in his company’s credo, which expresses the idea that “this dance is for the world and the world is for everyone,” Alain Platel would like to be able to make worldwide change.
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Two Very Different Artists Grapple with the Legacy of Colonialism
The combination makes for a compelling if slightly uneven pairing.
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A Photo Exhibition Reduces Queer Desire to Clichés
Try not to roll your eyes: the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art has created an exhibition about the erotic.
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A Tactile Tour of Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham's 1940s Dance Sets
For over three decades, Martha Graham danced her most compelling choreography on and around the abstract sculpture of Isamu Noguchi.