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.

AH: And it wasn’t just the Rio Olympics that found it useful. EH: NASA has a data visualization team, and they’ve created their own version in the same format, which has also been very popular and ...

“It’s like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘It seemed to be a good idea at ...

You raise such a crucial aspect of her adventure, especially in this moment when the self—the self as brand, the artist as lifestyle influencer—reigns supreme. By doing the work of others, Sturtevant ...

In France, the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded in 1648 under the aegis of Louis XIV, began organizing an annual exhibition in 1667. Because the recurring location for this event was ...

Early on, for example, Laurie Spiegel sent me a few options, the first being the original files of her piece Kepler’s Harmony of the World, which uses the astronomical sounds of planets; the other was ...

Shana Moulton ’s iconic performance persona, Cynthia, embodies the complexities of contemporary life. Emblematic of the deep-seated effects of mass consumption, Cynthia is bombarded with choices, ...

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take ...

The Learning Tree. 1969. Gordon Parks I saw this film when I was 18 years old, and Gordon Parks was at that time one of my heroes. So to see a film about his childhood in Kansas was so riveting and ...

A 200-hour meditation teacher and mindfulness artist, Dora Kamau uses meditation as a tool to awaken individuals to the true experience of who they are. Impenetrable and unshaken by the qualms of life ...

Untitled (Nomsa with Africa) I started wearing my hair in an Afro in 1968, at age 14. Though I didn’t know Kwame Brathwaite then, I am sure I was affected by the Black Is Beautiful movement he ...