Art
Reimagining Artworks as Actors and the Gallery as a Stage
For General Rehearsal, authors wrote scenes for fictional productions, selecting works of art instead of characters.
Review
Art
The Artists Who Led Secret Lives as Musicians
Double Lives showcases the sound-based creations of people better known as artists than musicians.
Art
The Wondrous Alchemy of William Cordova’s Sculptures
In his first museum survey, at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Peruvian-born artist William Cordova creates a mostly-wordless history book through his enchanting sculptures, drawings, and installations.
Art
Neighbors Converge and Share Their Memories Around a Public Art Project in LA
Together the neighbors have built an incomplete history of the empty lot where Tanya Brodsky installed her sculpture earlier this summer.
Art
How Female Sculptors Are Pushing the Bounds of Metal as a Medium
"Heavy Metal", on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, showcases women artists working with a stereotypically masculine material.
Art
Understanding Contemporary Caribbean Art Outside of the Latin American Framework
Trying to subsume the Caribbean into a discourse of Latin America or America, curators argue, limits the ability to account for differences between islands.
Art
Tapestries that Mend the Divides Between Mexico and the US
Tanya Aguiñiga's work results from a lifetime of creating textile pieces from broken and found threads.
Art
The Deeply Shared Rhythms and Patterns of Paintings and Quilts
Both Allie McGhee, a painter, and Carole Harris, a fiber artist, are lifelong Detroiters, and both have established a signature aesthetic akin to visual jazz.
Film
To Infinity and Beyond, Yayoi Kusama Grapples With Conventions
A new film tells the story of Yayoi Kusama’s reckoning with her own demons and those of the artworld.
Art
Artists Urge Us to Get Outside and Smell the Moss
The 13 artists in Natural Wonders: The Sublime in Contemporary Art summon the raw power and unruliness of nature, and its ability to inspire awe.
Performance
A Performance in Montana Challenges How We Define Activist Art
Artist Mary Ellen Strom and Native American researcher Shane Doyle orchestrated a far-reaching and complex eco-art event at the Missouri Headwaters State Park in Three Forks, Montana.
Music
Mourning Aretha Franklin
The energy Franklin put into her singing suggests the existence of something to overcome, her swooping dynamics and shouts coming from a place of insecurity and hardship.