"It is very important to be in love with life... Life is very fragile and always elusive. As soon as we think we 'understand,' there is another mystery. I don’t understand anything. That is, I think, the key to understand everything."
I never thought I would become an art critic who complains about exhibition didactics. And yet, after a visit to the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, here I am.
The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.
After a stint in 1950s New York, the LA-based artist abandoned abstraction and painting in favor of dreamlike, sexually charged drawings.
Through oceanic quilts and photographs, the artist transforms Miami’s waters into a site of refuge, memory, and belonging.
From one angle, her sculptural constructions appear deep, but from another flat; here they look angled, there not.
A Texas university shutters a show critiquing ICE, a medievalist’s ode to a 15th-century Black angel, and “Ponyo” arrives in LA.
Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth - by Graham Shields Read on Aeon
A watched pot will boil. As it heats up, there’s no way to predict where the cavitation will start and which bubble will arrive first. But with enough time and enough heat, it’s going to boil. That tree down the street is going to lose its leaves this winter. We don’t know
Apart from a few bridges that still work, the infrastructural achievements of the Roman Empire exist, for us, mostly as ruins. With a little imagination, those historic sites give us a clear enough sense of the empire’s sheer might, but if we want to go deeper, we should then
Madman or visionary? A little of both? A genius? A brand? A mensch? David Lynch was all these things and more, and this fan-made video above serves as a quick reminder of the career and the consistency of the film director/artist/transcendental meditator who passed away last