Robert Frank’s films include The Sin of Jesus, his 1961 adaptation of an Isaac Babel short story; OK End Here (1963), an intimate chamber piece featuring an original score by the great free jazz ...

June 18, 1920 Fumaria officinalis (Common Fumitory) The Fumaria has a sensitive nature spirit, it tries to incorporate both ascending and descending energies. Its flower is wispy, seemingly without ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

The artist talks about Claude Monet, the muscle memory of painting, and why he’s packing a tube of orange paint for his summer in Maine.

I’ve always been somebody who watches. Initially, I got into photography because I wrote a book report about Lewis Hine. I wrote about his photograph of a child laborer at Carolina Mills. I was ...

On Valentine’s Day 1970, David Mancuso began hosting regular, invitation-only dance parties at his home at 647 Broadway in New York City. Initially started as a way to make rent, these weekly ...

On the occasion of MoMA’s recent acquisition of more than 200 works by Ken Jacobs, and the presentation of three of his films in Gallery 411: Ken Jacobs: Deep Cuts, we sat down with one of cinema’s ...

I do not remember when I first met Richard Serra. But I do remember the first time I was bowled over by his work. It was in the fall of 1996 when I saw the monumental 58x64x70—the title describes the ...