Art
When Hens Look Like Maleviches
There is no perfect word or glossary to describe where Laura Lima takes art.
Reviews
Art
From Henry Clay Frick to Gilded Matzah, Observing the World in Glass Cases
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
The Elusive Painter Who Predicted Minimalism in the Mid 1950s
John Ferren did not so much work outside the mainstream as circle it continuously in a personal and highly meditative quest for meaning.
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.
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.
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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.