Art
A Plant Concert Blooms in an Abandoned Building
Martin Roth's electronic soundscape shifts as plants grow and sway in a Victorian house in upstate New York.
Martin Roth
Art
A Field of Lavender Nourished by Trump’s Tweets
A subterranean field of lavender, planted by Martin Roth in Midtown Manhattan, is nurtured by lights that are largely controlled by the President's tweets.
Art
Live Parakeets and Bullfrogs Amid the Wreckage of War
Amid the wreckage of rocks and concrete flit two dozen parakeets, and lurking in the subterranean marsh is a colony of bullfrogs, crouched on lily pads or breaking the surface of the six-inch-deep muddy water with their heads.
Art
NADA's New Grown-Up Look
This year's New York incarnation of the NADA art fair suggested that the gathering of young emerging galleries often characterized as the minor leagues of Frieze and other "major league" art fairs has grown up quite a bit. Yet with maturity comes a tendency towards conservatism, and that was reflect
News
The Backlash Against Ai Weiwei
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is still missing after his arrest over a week ago, so the story now turns around how the arrest is being discussed in international dialogue. US, German and French officials have called for Ai's release, but others, including one German museum director and a segment of Chine