The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison we can fashion images of ourselves sufficiently ...

Taking off from the SculptureCenter’s recent “puddle, pothole, portal,” this piece offers some fresh critical insights about why there is so damn much cartoon imagery floating around in contemporary ...

Between 2014 and 2016, a YouTube channel called Every Frame a Painting posted 28 video essays critiquing movies and dissecting different aspects of filmmaking before it went silent. Taylor Ramos and ...

In 18th-century Mexico, casta paintings were all the rage, as the bloodlines of Spanish colonizers and of the colonized indigenous, black and mixed-race populations mingled and American-born Spaniards ...

These wonderful essays capture Hustvedt's thoughtful, intensely personal and aesthetically charged responses to art. At first, Hustvedt's choice of artists seems random or disjointed, but it becomes ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Seismic shifts occur infrequently on the cultural landscape, and the works produced at such rare moments accrue ...

An outstandingly entertaining, erudite trip through the history of color photography as technology and as art. As a bonus, it delivers nicely on Triple Canopy’s unique digital magazine format. [Kodak ...

DETROIT- On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball during his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. As a way of celebrating the momentous and historic event, and ...

Myles Russell Cook works for the National Gallery of Victoria. During the night of September 7 1936, the last remaining thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, popularly referred to by the name of “Benjamin” ...

Art, though a human craft, gains new form when curated. Whether conserved, contained or placed (un)symmetrically, it becomes sculpted and reinterpreted for the human eye. Museums are a representative ...