Art
Susanna Hertrich is as much a designer and researcher as she is an artist; her show at Art Laboratory Berlin constructs a narrative in which human senses, instincts, and emotions are prosthetically enhanced to better suit the specific challenges of the 21st century.
Art
There is no perfect word or glossary to describe where Laura Lima takes art.
Art
PHILADELPHIA — Upon entering Joshua Reiman’s inventive new show Glass Houses at the Napoleon Gallery, the first thing that strikes you is one of sound rather than vision: a steady, persistent drip-drip-drip of water into a tank.
Art
John Ferren did not so much work outside the mainstream as circle it continuously in a personal and highly meditative quest for meaning.
Art
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Among Pop art’s notable motifs are capitalism, consumerism, and now Catholicism.
Art
SANTA FE — An Evening Redness in the West explores the landscape of an apocalyptic world, investigating the doom of end times but also their promise of a new beginning.
Art
MOSCOW — Should you find yourself among the fountains and fields of Gorky Park, and should you wander into the vicinity of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and should you be a serious, no-bullshit arachnophobe, look down at your feet and return the way you came.
Art
Natasha Johns-Messenger has created a maze of mirrors in "ThreeFold" (2015). It will make you laugh at how easily mirrors can trick and fool your mind.
Art
DETROIT — A limousine can be many things: transportation of choice for prom, a status marker, and a bit of a paradox.
Art
Jacob Riis may have set his house on fire twice, and himself aflame once, as he perfected the new 19th-century flash photography technique, but when the magnesium powder erupted with a white, blinding light, he illuminated some of the darkest corners of Manhattan's impoverished tenements.
Books
Ikebana, which translates to "living flowers," is the Japanese art of floral arrangement that dates back to the 16th century.
Performance
The designs and theories of Buckminster Fuller may seem like quaint retrofuturism today, but there was a time when his utopian ideas seemed to hold the key to peaceful and sustainable human existence on earth — at least he thought so.