Smithson chose to have himself filmed from a helicopter directly overhead, which tracked him as he walked the full length of the spiral. In perhaps the most recognized scene in the film, Smithson ...

Lizania Cruz is a Dominican participatory artist and designer interested in how systemic issues, mythmaking, historiography, and language shape our understanding of otherness and belonging. Through ...

Of all the senses, touch is the biggest taboo in a museum. Glass cases, stanchions, and signs pepper the galleries to remind us not to touch the art, in order to protect it. But what if allowing touch ...

Damasia Lacroze and Kunbi Oni on Lam’s Grande Composition Damasia Lacroze: Lam completed Grande Composition in 1949 in his home in Havana. It is his largest work on paper and represents a definitive ...

The Photoplay collection came in in the 1960s, but the Dell collection came in more recently. I was working at MoMA as an assistant to Mary Corliss when we sorted the Dell collection. We went to a ...

Join Lola Flash and five friends as they reminisce about art and community when the AIDS epidemic tore through NYC in the 1980s and ’90s.

Hear from artists, writers, and therapists about what happens when art and grief collide.

Guarded Optimism/Peaking Early (7:00 p.m.–midnight) Our special 24-hour screening didn’t start until 7:00 p.m. (I went in 15 minutes early), so I’ve already been up for nine hours. In researching ...

Elena Subach is a visual artist and photographer based in Lviv, Ukraine. She is currently researching the legacy of the photographer and filmmaker Yulian Dorosh and Lviv photography from the first ...

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On the occasion of the exhibition Vital Signs: Artists and the Body, we spoke with art historian Cyle Metzger about Forrest Bess, an artist central to Metzger’s work on the trans history of art in the ...

Bill Viola opened my eyes and touched my soul with his infectious sense of wonder. I learned so much from him: how video is as much sound as image; that an installation is a finely tuned environment; ...