French artist Juliette Minchin appreciates wax for its ambivalence. Activated by heat, the modest material can be smooth or crinkled, firm or pliable, and molded into a distinct shape or pooled into a puddle of liquid. No matter its current form, though, wax can quickly morph
A student committee will work with the school to divest from funds linked to human rights violations following campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.
Immigrant arts professionals are encouraged to apply for a 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise by June 10.
The New York Choral Society and dance company EMERGE125 join forces for a powerful exploration of 1950s music, reimagined through the lens of the Lavender Scare.
Collaborative artists Yelena Filipchuk and Serge Beaulieu, who work as HYBYCOZO , explore light, geometry, and pattern in a new large-scale, immersive installation at Sensorio . The culmination of three years of research and development, DIMENSIONS invites visitors to wander
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Escif ( previously ) gained a foothold in street art by portraying playful scenes that tap into themes of capitalism, politics, and society, often relying on humor to convey messages related current events and activism. Now, the prolific Valencia-based artist is producing his
"How perforated squares of trippy blotter paper allowed outlaw chemists and wizard-alchemists to dose the world with LSD."
A full 82 copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio will go on view as the renovated Washington, D.C. institution makes its debut
"Garfield was at war with his own game and the industry that was erupting around it almost as soon as 'Magic' released."
Finding beauty, human connection, and one’s heritage in the resonant sounds of the dulcimer.
Given its intimacy with the body and deep play on form and function, furniture is a ripely ambiguous artform of its own - by Emma Crichton Miller Read at Aeon
We can agree that Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was here all along, but he gets some credit for naming it and describing it. And Columbus definitely didn’t discover North America. There had been people living here for tens of thousands of years before he arrived. After
“Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity,” wrote the political philosopher Hannah Arendt, describing the scene leading up to the prominent Holocaust-organizer’s execution. After drinking half a bottle of wine, turning down the offer of religious assistance, and
Among modern-day liberals and conservatives alike, George Orwell enjoys practically sainted status. And indeed, throughout his body of work, including but certainly not limited to his oft-assigned novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, one can find numerous implicitly or
Merging organic forms with timeless craft, Susanna Bauer emphasizes incredible details in her intimate leaf sculptures. Working with a range of foraged species, from ginkgo to magnolia to oak, the artist ( previously ) meticulously stitches around the edges or fills in tiny
"This ad breaks things. By implication, it threatens to break people, or at least their livelihoods."
The festival took down the artwork submission after a petition said its title, “From the River to the Sea,” was antisemitic.
School might be out for summer, but for those of us needing extra credit in the world of aesthetics, objects, and their meaning, the team at Crash Course is offering bite-sized lessons in art history. A new video series hosted by curator and educator Sarah Urist Green dives
"The recent surge in MDMA research has demonstrated applications that range far beyond psychiatry, from treating Parkinson’s disease and cancer to promoting trust and emotional bonding."
Eager for interpersonal exchange and viewer participation, the Detroit-based artist invites us into their candid visualizations of ancestral and personal history.
Cattelan's new installation of gold panels punctured by bullets resembles works that artist Anthony James has been making since 2011.
Way’s drawings are not messages to be decoded but instead are renderings of our yearning to comprehend.
Several works on display in this year’s iteration of the fair, both ancient and modern, stand out for their homoeroticism and queer aesthetics.
Children have been joyously climbing the 5,000-pound sculpture, which has been reclining on the grounds of Greenwich’s Bruce Museum since Earth Day.