“The model railroader is the truest creator: engineer, architect, and master of his own timetable,” reads a statement about Josh Dihle’s feverish exhibition, Basement Arrangement. Armed with hundreds of minuscule [...]
The Mexican state of Guerrero lies on the southern Pacific coast and is home to the popular tourist destination of Acapulco. It’s also one of the nation’s most violent areas [...]
After the “orca uprising” captivated anti-capitalists around the world in 2023, scientists are intrigued by another form of marine mammal communication. A study released this month by the SETI Institute [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]