Art
Corita Kent’s Political and Holy Language in the Context of Pop
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Among Pop art’s notable motifs are capitalism, consumerism, and now Catholicism.
Review
Art
Native American Artists Envision a Sublime Apocalypse
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
Louise Bourgeois's Anxieties Find a Home in Moscow’s Art Garage
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
Tricking Perception in a Maze of Mirrors
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
Slicing Up a Limo as a Metaphor for Detroit
DETROIT — A limousine can be many things: transportation of choice for prom, a status marker, and a bit of a paradox.
Art
Jacob Riis's Photographic Battle with New York's 19th-Century Slums
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
The Melancholy Art of Japanese Floral Arrangements
Ikebana, which translates to "living flowers," is the Japanese art of floral arrangement that dates back to the 16th century.
Performance
A Play Takes Buckminster Fuller’s Fantastic Ideas to Task
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.
Art
Pausing to Consider How Plants React to Humans
CHICAGO — A poison ivy leaf is scary, if not panic-inducing.
Art
Modeling Life, Death, and Eternity in the Ancient Americas
Miniature mummies carved from wood and carefully wrapped in tiny shrouds overlook a model of a Chimú palace, one of the small-scale representations of a lost precolonial world in Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas.
Art
X Marks the Spot: E. J. McAdams’s Sculptural Nature Writing
Taking its title from a line in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, E.J. McAdams’ site-specific installation, “Trees Are Alphabets,” consists of salvaged sawed-off tree branches, most about seven or eight feet long, sculpturally arranged on the terrace of The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Art
Slip, Sliding Away with John Walker
What do Richard Diebenkorn and John Walker have in common? When they sink their teeth into something, they aren’t likely to let it go.