Some New York City commuters and tourists traveling through Manhattan’s 34th Street–Pennsylvania Station will now discover Diana Al-Hadid’s new mosaic “The Time Telling.” The work was [...]
In the shadows of the Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, archaeologist and controversial former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass and his team of 10 may have discovered Egypt’s oldest known mummy [...]
A steel railroad spike clad in gold and silver used in the ceremony marking the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, May 10, 1869 (all images courtesy Christie’s)
Excitement struck [...]
In Santa Monica, California, the 18th Street Arts Center has been archiving its city’s history in the face of accelerating gentrification. Culture Mapping 90404 documents the people and places [...]
February is a big time in the Los Angeles art world, with four art fairs (Frieze, Felix, Spring Break, and the LA Art Show) coming to town later this month (not to mention Museums Free-For-All day). [...]
LOS ANGELES — Whether it’s capturing golden hour through gossamer curtains or dawn on a naked bough in autumn, Uta Barth has been chasing light throughout her career. In her solo exhibition, [...]
Nicola López and Paula Wilson: Becoming Land at the Albuquerque Museum presents the work of two artists who, through mixed media interpretations of human interventions in New Mexico’s desert [...]
LOS ANGELES — The way Pa,Sacio Davinci tells it, he never wanted to be an actor. “Acting has never been a part of me, ‘cause I don’t like it,” he said. “I had to do [...]
Every year since I first had the pleasure of studying art history at university, I have longed for a sourcebook “detailing” art from India.
I am sometimes quite annoyed with publications with [...]
Join the New York Historical Society on Friday, February 10, at 1pm (ET) for Human/Nature: Pathways from Art to Environment. Drawing on the Anchorage Museum’s program of artist residencies in the [...]
