"What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary. In
"In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly."
A group of galleries met to address the “increased number of vendors” on and near Broadway, many of whom are immigrants under threat.
If deleting the social media post tomorrow would change nothing about how artists are paid or how resources are allocated, the gallery’s allyship is disposable.
An exhibition retells the story of his discovery by Berenice Abbott, leaving out the details of a life defined by failure.
"How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?"
A new translation of the French artist’s 1930 memoir is a kaleidoscopic collection of dialogues, sketches, and Blakean proverbs.
These works feel almost metaphysically transportive — like a universe bound by a different set of rules that’s a pleasure to explore.
"For the growing number of Canadians who will get cancer in their lifetimes, the financial stress can be profound."
"Two years ago, our cooking columnist Yewande Komolafe woke from a coma and soon learned her body would be profoundly altered. She recounts her journey back to the kitchen, and to herself."
Participants receive an artist’s fee, a research budget, housing, round-trip travel, mentoring, and other resources to support their work.
Just before he formulated his revolutionary laws of planetary motion and just after completing the world’s first work of science fiction, which landed his mother in a witchcraft trial, Johannes Kepler grew fascinated with the geometry of ice crystals in snow. A quarter
"Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought."
"Emotions are not reactions to the world; they are your constructions of the world."
Tonic for living with that sacred, terrifying uncertainty with which all creative work enters the world.
How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have together on this lonely, perfect planet. The seventh annual Universe in Verse —
Mass layoffs at the MFA Boston, the Newark Museum of Art gets a new director, and why we can never get enough of Caravaggio.