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ArtRx NYC: Summer Day Trips
Today may be September 1, but it's not Labor Day yet, so you've still got one week left to act like you're on summer break.
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#BlackLivesMatter Street Signs Coming to New York This Fall
A new set of "Black Lives Matter" street signs carrying some provocative messages will appear in New York City in October.
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Printing a Poem on an Orchard’s Apples
The apples in Seattle's Piper's Orchard will ripen this summer and fall with words from a 26-section poem printed on their skin.
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How a Set of Rediscovered 19th-Century Japanese Doors Leads to Frank Lloyd Wright
Last week, a trio of late-19th-century Japanese sliding door paintings, originally believed to be missing or destroyed, finally emerged after years spent hidden in a Chicago Park District storage facility.
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A Geometry of Spatial Illusion
PARIS — Felice Varini’s environmental paintings can only be experienced in architectural space.
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A Show that Embraces Failure
MEXICO CITY — “I’ll just keep on ... till I get it right,” croons Tammy Wynette’s melancholy, droning voice to viewers as they enter Mexico City’s LABOR gallery.
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The Living History of Jacob Lawrence's 'Migration Series'
I am only one generation removed from the history of African American migrants who, between 1917 and 1970, travelled North seeking economic opportunity, education, and respite from the strictures of Jim Crow South.
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A Photographer Who Deserves to Be Widely Known
A few weeks ago, while a friend and I were driving to Rockland, Maine, where I was scheduled to give a lecture, we stopped in Portland, because I wanted to see the exhibition Rose Marasco: index at the Portland Museum of Art.
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Forty Years of Carolee Schneemann’s “Interior Scroll”
Forty years ago on August 29, 1975, the thirty-six-year-old artist Carolee Schneemann pulled a scroll from her vagina. The performance, titled Interior Scroll, is an essential moment in performance art history, and an important milestone in the artist’s provocative and influential oeuvre.
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A Redesign of Chess that Sets Us Up to Lose
In 1924, competitive chess players in Paris founded the World Chess Federation, the first international governing chess organization.
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Ingrid Bergman at 100: An Appreciation
Bergman was a vital, daring force both in the films in which she starred and — through her bold initiative, forging collaborations and instigating projects time and again — in the course of the history of cinema as a whole.
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Artists Trade Their Work for Plane Rides and Gallons of Paint
DETROIT — There is a great tension between the investments an artist makes to produce work and the living she extracts from selling art.