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 ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about polka dots lately. Whenever I walk down the hot, busy streets of New York or bathe in the subway’s air conditioning, I notice more people wearing the mesmerizing pattern ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abel Rodríguez is a sage of the Nonuya people, who live in the Amazon rainforest. He is known as a “plant namer” because of his astonishing ability to remember the wide range of vegetable and animal ...

Myron Farber: I don’t believe in love at first sight. I believe there is infatuation at first sight. There is maybe even enchantment at first sight. There’s hope at first sight. But over time, there’s ...

“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 ...