The sublime underlies the nobility of Classicism, the awe of Romantic nature, and the terror of the Gothic.
Simon Morley | Mar 22, 2021
For thousands of years, plants have been cultivated not only for economic reasons, but to serve magic, lure immortal beings, and for aesthetic pleasure.
George Gessert | Mar 4, 2021
Xerography was not only central to the production and dissemination of art and community, but changed who could be an active participant in the making of culture.
Kate Eichhorn | Feb 23, 2021
“We’re no longer in a place where everybody kind of agrees on the same definition of reality at all."
Kembrew McLeod | Jan 26, 2021
Installation art urged a deeper physical relationship with the material world, but also an awareness of the historical and cultural associations that places and things carry with them.
Tony Godfrey | Dec 8, 2020
“In effect the single word is a new reading process; like electricity — instant and continuous.”
Paul Stephens | Sep 8, 2020
Facing unprecedented limitations to their physical operations and vocal calls to redress their complicity in racial injustice, museums are having a moment of reckoning.
David Joselit | Jul 22, 2020
A Google researcher looks into the mind of a computer.
Arthur I. Miller | Jul 1, 2020
Against the grim background of the Covid-19 catastrophe, there is some small cause for hope in the current renewal of enthusiasm for cycling.
Bruce Bennett | Jun 15, 2020
The Palestinian artist reflects on how inherited trauma can be used as a tool to shape the future in the image of the past.
Anthony Downey | Apr 6, 2020
