Birds Do It, Bees Do It: Taking Animals’ Art Skills Seriously
Move over, painting chimps. Today’s art-making animals are cutting-edge creators who turn up everywhere from the National Zoo to MoMA Read More
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Brooklyn Brewery: Tapping Local Talent
Fred Tomaselli is among the Brooklyn-based artists who designed labels for limited-edition beer bottles Read More
The Art That Made Peru Peru
Three millennia, 350 objects, and one national identity are featured in an ambitious show at Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts Read More
Race You to the Porsche Show at the Art Museum
Horsepower meets star power in North Carolina Museum of Art’s upcoming survey of iconic German autos Read More
Flipping Pages: Using Moleskine as Medium
A new book showcases artists, writers, architects, and designers who turn blank journals into works of art Read More
America, the Great Colossal Collage: Saul Steinberg’s Forgotten Masterpiece
The spectacular, panoramic, pasted-paper mural that Saul Steinberg created for the American Pavilion of the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair is reassembled for the first time at the Ludwig Museum Read More
Camera Ready: Artists Play With Polaroid
A new book chronicles the ways that artists ranging from Ansel Adams to Warhol, Close, and Wegman harnessed the speed and palette of the instant camera Read More
The Curator Vanishes: Period Room as Crime Scene
A disappearance, a discovery, and a mystery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, via Mark Dion Read More
Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Destructing Chocolate Head
Chocolate was the medium of choice for Janine Antoni and Dieter Roth to depict—and deface—their own image Read More
Girl with a Hoop Earring: Fun with Vermeer
Two beloved Vermeers have left Holland for a stint in the U.S. They’ll find their descendants stripped by Dalí, bedecked in toilet-paper rolls, and reincarnated by Cindy Sherman Read More
The Other Modernism: Rediscovering Iran’s Avant-Garde
Overshadowed by revolution, sanctions, and outdated notions of the Modern, Iran’s vibrant postwar art scene is coming into focus at the Asia Society Read More
What She Did For Love: Tracey Emin Hearts Times Square
British artist’s first American public-art piece will inspire passersby to kiss—or cry Read More
