Art
From a Missing Woman to an Overpowering Odor, Adventures from London's First Art Night
LONDON — “Have you seen Betty? She has big boobs! She has disappeared!”
Featured
Opinion
"A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday" Flag Goes Up in New York City
This week, we've witnessed another onslaught of senseless killings of Black people by police in the United States.
Opinion
Looking for Love on Wydr, the "Tinder for Buying Art"
I wasn’t looking for a real relationship with a work of art.
In Brief
Air Conditioner Outage Shuts Down Brooklyn Museum for the Weekend
It appears this week's summer heat in New York has impacted the art world, as the Brooklyn Museum just announced it will be closed this weekend because of an "air-conditioning outage."
Art
3D-Rendered Visions of Dystopia, Inspired by the Housing Market Crash
PHILADELPHIA — Up the stairs on the second floor of Locks Gallery, you’ll find an exhibition of landscapes. These aren’t the boring, pastoral, plein air landscapes you’ll find for sale in droves up the street in Old City.
In Brief
5th-Century Biblical Mosaics Found in Ancient Synagogue
Animals marching onto Noah's Ark and the parting of the Red Sea feature in two mosaic floor panels discovered in a Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq, Israel
Art
A Brooklyn Museum App Encourages Visitors to Ask Questions
In May, the Brooklyn Museum launched the new Android version of its ASK app, a mobile application that enables visitors to interact with the museum’s audience engagement staff in real time.
Interview
An Artist Photographs His Depression to Destigmatize Mental Illness
JOHANNESBURG — “Those are white people problems” is often the response to mental illness in black communities across the globe. South African photographer Tsoku Maela hopes to change that.
News
Lucian Freud’s Unseen Self-Portrait and Sketchbooks Go on View
“Truth heads into naked people bodies bodies whole complete living naked women avoid facial expression make bodies expressive of feeling,” scribbled painter Lucian Freud in one of the sketchbooks now on display at London's National Portrait Gallery.
Art
A Roving Typewriter Records the Subconscious of New York City
Inside a wooden shack installed at North 12th Street and Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg's McCarren Park, anyone can sit down at a typewriter and contribute to a collaborative poem unfolding over a 100-foot paper scroll.
Art
In Rome, a Worrying Trend as Alternative Spaces Go Silent
ROME — Following the election of Rome’s first female mayor — Virginia Raggi of the populist Five Star Movement, who won a massive 67.2% in the second ballot — the city awaits solutions to the neglect which has led to overgrown parks, rubbish on the streets, large-scale homelessness of the city’s imm
Books
On the Origin of Emoji
A new book published by Prestel explores the history of emoji and its rise as a global communication phenomenon.