Rosa Barba Lights Up MoMA With Her Love of Cinema
Several art forms have been intersecting in Barba’s life since her childhood near Stuttgart, in southern Germany, where she took classes in dance, flute and guitar before settling on cello.…
In Miami, Wynwood Walls Museum Evolves Along With Street Art
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. The real estate developer Tony Goldman was no stranger to transforming…
In Baltimore, Confronting Chaos Through Contemporary Art
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. “What is your wildest dream for our future?” That is the…
Museums Renovate to Enhance the Experience of Art Through Nature
The pandemic brought those complaints to a head. “We found ourselves to be one of the first cultural spaces in the tristate area to reopen because of our ability to…
A Look Back at the Guerrilla Girls, 40 Years In
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. When it comes to artists whose works have a decidedly feminist…
Boston Public Art Triennial Hopes to Offer a New Image of the City
Based on a knockoff of an Indigenous totem pole produced for tourists that the artist chopped like firewood and cast in bronze, the stooped figurative piece appears in the process…
Yale Center for British Art Hosts Emin and Turner, the Masters of Margate
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. On the campus of Yale University, two art museums housed in…
Henry Clay Frick Built His Collection With Passion and Patience
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. In the Gilded Age, when newly wealthy Americans sought to advertise…
Gretchen Dow Simpson, Creator of New Yorker Covers, Dies at 85
Gretchen Dow Simpson, an acclaimed Rhode Island painter whose moody, highly geometric images of seaside cottages, snow-covered farms and other totems of New England life drew comparisons to Edward Hopper…
8 Standouts at the AIPAD Photography Fair
Photography may be the perfect medium for an art fair. It’s passed through so many uses and technologies in its nearly two centuries of life that an exhibition like The…
