In the summer of 1978, when I was a Long Island kid just out of high school, my life was changed by a trip to a Greenwich Village repertory film theater. It was the Art Cinema on 8th Street, which, ...

June 18, 1920 Fumaria officinalis (Common Fumitory) The Fumaria has a sensitive nature spirit, it tries to incorporate both ascending and descending energies. Its flower is wispy, seemingly without ...

AH: And it wasn’t just the Rio Olympics that found it useful. EH: NASA has a data visualization team, and they’ve created their own version in the same format, which has also been very popular and ...

Hear from artists, writers, and therapists about what happens when art and grief collide.

Guarded Optimism/Peaking Early (7:00 p.m.–midnight) Our special 24-hour screening didn’t start until 7:00 p.m. (I went in 15 minutes early), so I’ve already been up for nine hours. In researching ...

You raise such a crucial aspect of her adventure, especially in this moment when the self—the self as brand, the artist as lifestyle influencer—reigns supreme. By doing the work of others, Sturtevant ...

Wright not only welcomed this hypothetical migration, he sought to design it. At the 1935 National Alliance of Arts and Industry Exposition at Rockefeller Center, he unveiled a massive, ...

In France, the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded in 1648 under the aegis of Louis XIV, began organizing an annual exhibition in 1667. Because the recurring location for this event was ...

The artist talks about Claude Monet, the muscle memory of painting, and why he’s packing a tube of orange paint for his summer in Maine.

I’ve always been somebody who watches. Initially, I got into photography because I wrote a book report about Lewis Hine. I wrote about his photograph of a child laborer at Carolina Mills. I was ...

I do not remember when I first met Richard Serra. But I do remember the first time I was bowled over by his work. It was in the fall of 1996 when I saw the monumental 58x64x70—the title describes the ...

Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Matarile Ediciones I started at Dashwood Books, a store specializing in art books, particularly photography. At a certain point I realized that by working there I had access ...