It’s hard to believe that a song like “Psycho Killer,” a pioneering New Wave track by Talking Heads, is nearly five decades old. While the song was released in 1977 [...]
With its panoramic views of New York Harbor, the house that trailblazing photographer Alice Austen (1866-1952) called home for most of her life, is a sprawling, two-story, elegant Victorian Gothic [...]
Piping clay with bakery tools, Ebony Russell creates a range of delectable vessels in a prism of colors. Russell’s practice is founded in both the relationship between form and function [...]
If you’ve ever had an upstairs neighbor, you’re probably familiar with the sounds of echoing footsteps, resonant laughing, glass breaking, and the muffled weight of too many voices speaking atop [...]
Experimentation is a driving force in Dara Schuman’s ceramic practice. Out of her Chicago studio, the artist conjures striking geometric forms that appear stacked, ribbed, and almost architectonic. With an [...]
Known for her delectable, frilly, occasionally ominous acrylic paintings made with bakery tools, Yvette Mayorga (previously) nods to memories of her mother working as a baker and references Baroque and Rococo art [...]
From delicately folded paper, Berkeley-based ceramicist Mark Goudy draws inspiration for an ongoing series, Origami. He describes his work as “minimal forms with hidden complexity,” building on a love for [...]
Europe is home to some of the world’s most renowned public transit systems, from the Paris Métropolitain to the Berlin U-Bahn to Stockholm Metro. The latter is incidentally home to [...]
Through a multidisciplinary approach spanning painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, British artist Hew Locke OBE RA interrogates “the languages of colonial and post-colonial power, and the symbols through which different [...]
For Japanese marine photographer Ryo Minemizu, some of the world’s tiniest creatures prove to be the most awe-inspiring. Capturing the vibrant hues and otherworldly features of plankton (previously), he scouts [...]