Even thought it's been over 100 years since his death, Jacob Riis is a name most New Yorkers still recognize—not necessarily because they are familiar with his work as a journalist and photographer…
When asked why he thought there may be a surge of interest in contemporary African art in the past year, Joost Bosland, a director of the Cape Town branch of Stevenson, the largest contemporary…
One of the many pleasures of being finished with school is that you no longer have to deal with standardized tests.
Sarah Anne Johnson had just returned from an artist's residency on a double-masted schooner in the Norwegian territory of the Arctic Circle when she began materially intervening into her photographs…
One's first inclination on entering "Studio Pietà (King Kong Komplex)," London-born, Berlin-based Simon Fujiwara's first New York solo, is to step up on the central platform and look at the photograph…
When the Chinese lighting designer Zhen Jianwei asked artist JenniferWen Ma in 2012 to work with him on a concept that would give the BeijingNational Aquatics Center a facelift, her first thought was…
Scott Treleaven never partied with punk musician Richard Hell, or shopped at Seditionaries, the boutique founded by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood. At 40, the Toronto-born, New York-based art…
On June 13, the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Okla., will open Philbrook Downtown, a 30,000-square-foot, two-story satellite space in a brick warehouse in the Brady Arts District. Designed in a m…
Even though the objects on view are all made with modern-day industrial materials such as concrete and metal, walking into "All industrious people," an exhibition by Justin Matherly at New York's Pa…
If you're going to watch anyone sleeping in a raised glass case, it might as well be actress Tilda Swinton, whose fey and androgynous beauty lends itself well to an act that's fairy tale-like in natur…