You mentioned the “Magritte man”: the iconic figure dressed in a suit and bowler hat who populates many of Magritte’s paintings. His bourgeois costume tends to be at odds with the circumstances in ...

Discover Ruth Asawa, one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century, and the enduring legacy of her radical and unflagging experiments with material and form. We visit Asawa’s San Francisco ...

A relentless explorer, April Greiman has been pushing the boundaries between design, art, and technology for over four decades. Her layered work merges analog and digital, handmade and mechanically ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about polka dots lately. Whenever I walk down the hot, busy streets of New York or bathe in the subway’s air conditioning, I notice more people wearing the mesmerizing pattern ...

Join Lola Flash and five friends as they reminisce about art and community when the AIDS epidemic tore through NYC in the 1980s and ’90s.

The artist talks about how her meticulous depictions of computer chips connect to a long tradition of Navajo weaving.

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

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 ...

On Valentine’s Day 1970, David Mancuso began hosting regular, invitation-only dance parties at his home at 647 Broadway in New York City. Initially started as a way to make rent, these weekly ...

Abel Rodríguez is a sage of the Nonuya people, who live in the Amazon rainforest. He is known as a “plant namer” because of his astonishing ability to remember the wide range of vegetable and animal ...