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How a Photographer Helped a Georgia Town Desegregate Its Proms
Documentary photographers sometimes wonder what kind of impact their work has, but Gillian Laub knows hers has inspired real change.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a multimedia shadow play at a historic railway station, a poetry reading by a punk pioneer, a meditation walk in remembrance of those lost to AIDS, and much more.
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Lessons from 30 Years of NYC's Percent for Art Program
2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Jorge Luis Rodriguez’s “Growth” and the public art program that initiated its creation.
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Another Treasure Lost in Iraq: The Story of Mar Behnam Monastery
Among the most tragic losses of the many antiquities destroyed in Iraq by ISIS has been the destruction of Iraq's seriously understudied medieval architecture.
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Modernist Male Art Is Timeless, but Not Timely
PARIS — According to Sigmund Freud, a key that opens a room in a dream is unmistakably phallic.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, activism is the theme, with an exhibition centered on musical resistance, another featuring political posters, and a conference devoted to helping artists find and keep affordable workspaces.
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GIFs That Bring Street Art to Life
A. L. Crego composes playful, bizarre GIFs from other people's street art.
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Bringing New York City's Underpasses Out of the Shadows and into Public Space
Over 700 miles of underdeveloped space are in the shadows of New York City's elevated highways and rails.
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Remembering Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015)
The American artist Miriam Schapiro died on Saturday. Her death brings up enormous issues about feminism, legacy, and about the role an artist plays in how she enters a history she helped to create.
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At the Havana Biennial, a Project Reflects on the Legacy of US Sanctions
French artist Didier Faustino offers a poetic reflection at this year's Havana Biennial on how five decades of sanctions have impacted Cuban youth.
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The Leaflets Dropped Before the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima on the morning of August 6, 1945, was bright, sunny, and perhaps a little uncomfortably warm.
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The Madcap Masonry of Clinker Bricks
With twisted, charred shapes distended in chaotic lines, clinker brick looks like the deranged work of a madman.