Interview
Quiet Company and a Crackling Fire in an Artist-Made Yule Log Video
Artist Lauren LoGuidice shares why she felt inspired to create her 2.5-hour long video "Yule Log With Friends."
Video
Art
Go Behind the Scenes of 9 Museums With These Great Online Web Series
These nine museums are using online video series to take viewers behind the scenes of their collections.
Art
Watch Alexander Calder's Kinetic Sculptures in Rarely Activated Motion
Watch Alexander Calder's kinetic sculptures in rare activations through videos shared by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Art
Playing Out Art Fantasies on the Phone with Customer Service
Artist Frank Heath collaborates with performers to speak with call center representatives, under the guise of service requests that quickly devolve into open-ended registers of existential distress.
Art
The Subversive Works of China's First Video Artist
Zhang Peili, who's having his first American retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago, rejects the government's use of media for entertainment and propaganda.
Art
Watch the British Museum Conserve Its Largest Print, a 16th-Century Dürer Woodcut
Albrecht Dürer's "Triumphal Arch" is one of the largest prints ever made, and after a century on view at the British Museum, its conservation was a colossal task.
Art
Travel the Early-20th-Century World in Over 700 Films from the Penn Museum Archives
The Digital Penn Museum is a new portal to thousands of objects, videos, lectures, and other archives of the institution for archaeology and anthropology.
Art
An Artistic Storm Fills a Formerly Abandoned Water Reservoir
Magdalena Fernández's art installation is the first to fill the Buffalo Bayou Cistern, a formerly abandoned 1920s water reservoir in Houston, Texas.
Art
A Blimp Floats in a Gallery, Imagining the View from Space
CHICAGO — The Sidney R. Yates gallery in the Chicago Cultural Center is a large space on the top floor of a neoclassical-style building on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue.
Art
Aerial Views of Where America’s Grid Bends to the Curvature of the Earth
As any traveler who's gazed out the window of an airplane while flying over the United States knows, the grid reigns.
Art
1,588-Foot-Tall Artwork Lights Up a Political Inferno in Hong Kong
HONG KONG — Add Oil Team is the name of the artist duo of Sampson Wong Yu-hin and Jason Lam Chi-fai, whose most recent work, "Our 60-Second Friendship Begins Now" — aka, the "Countdown Machine" — has sparked a firestorm of controversy, both locally and abroad.
Art
Recording the Stories of Marginalized Students
TUCSON, Ariz. — Underrepresentation of marginalized and minority communities in society is nothing new; neither is it in the art world.