South Korean designer Jinil Park is making waves with his one-of-a-kind furniture collections that appear to leap straight off a sketch.
From the streets of NY to top galleries of the world, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a true art prodigy whose work still informs pop culture today.
Experimental theatre aims to break the rules of traditional theatre performances, allowing artists to think outside the box and establish new artistic methods, with its most remarkable characteristic being the participation of its audience.
From Fiona Apple to Wim Wenders to Edvard Munch, here's a few examples of art that's relevant (and maybe somewhat comforting) through this garbage fire of a time.
"Must They Also Be Gods" is a group show that features the work of over 15 emerging and mid-career Black artists that highlights the creative process of African diasporic peoples.
Sterling's work explores the past, present, and future of lower class neighborhoods and he delivers a poetically energized performance. Check out our full gallery of shots from the show.
Immersion is the colossal cornerstone of Disney's brand, and their unwavering dedication to well-rounded, in-depth experiences is what continues to solidify their spot at the top of the theme park world.
Political art might not always be the kind of art you'd hang on your wall or play back over and over, but it's the kind of art that spurs actual change.
'Walk Through British Art', the permanent exhibition at London’s Tate Britain, is also a walk through British music. From Elizabeth I to Stephen Lawrence, adding music allowed me to connect with artworks that may have otherwise felt distant. Music pours silently from the paintings in this collection, and I found reuniting these different forms of artistic expression to be a thrilling experience.
Today, the National Endowment for the Arts is constantly being put on the chopping block when it comes to federal funding but it's not just about the artists. It’s about those that benefit from funding to the arts. If admission prices rise, that accessibility will become more and more difficult to justify financially and less people will be able to view the great works of artists past and present.
Artists have always faced an uphill battle, but new obstacles are being thrown in their way. Emerging technologies have been both a gift and a curse. Over the past decade, artists have grappled with historic levels of economic uncertainty and discord and federal funding for the arts is under attack. In the end, if we’re going to ensure that the arts we love thrive, we’re going to have to do it ourselves.
In this final installment of the Culture of Comics series, we are taking a look at comic creators who transcend the comic book medium in ways which liken their works more closely to forms of what is considered, "high art."
We may have already gotten the music video of the year with "Data," the visceral and epic new offering from experimental quartet BRUIT ≤.
Let's delve into the influence of education on a cult artist's life, how it nurtures creativity, and subsequently fame.
The internet has birthed a lot of bizarre trends, and "meme culture" might be its biggest one yet. From the term first being coined in 1976 to Bernie Sanders, it's been a wild ride.
Sidequest Gallery Brooklyn presents 'Triangles And The Shapes In Between', a solo exhibition of work by Scarlett Lingwood. Her first solo show in the United States.
Fort Gansevoort gallery presents Heavy Bag, by artist Zoë Buckman. A thoughtful exhibition by one of the leading artists and feminists in the art world. Check out our full gallery of shots from the show.
Rico Gatson and Baseera Khan both draw from political and cultural information pertaining to their backgrounds, and create works that echo memory and history. Check out our full gallery of shots from the show.
Whether you’re learned in the artistic ways or not, visiting an art museum is a worthwhile endeavor; however, if you're not used to it, visiting a art museum can be a frustrating endeavor. Here are a few things you can do to make the most of your experience.
Paris is a city where art and trouble make perfect bedfellows. Here are a few notorious artists who have called the City of Lights home.
The second we get a chance to escape from the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we leap into a world of creative imagination where life and art intertwine, and as we relentlessly explore endless content in the media library, we're bound to find something that we'll invest our time in (mostly years), that hits all the right buttons of our psyche. There are many reasons as to why we get more emotionally involved in fiction than the lives we lead.
Performance art strikes at the heart of the human experience, or at least tries to. What impact have performance artists had on our world and what makes for powerful performance art?
The extent to which aspects of both classic art and contemporary music took on different meanings when paired together amazed me. The withdrawn looks of the subjects became coy and knowing when I wondered what secrets they would reveal “if these walls could talk”, Haim’s defiant anthem of “baby, don’t save me” became the voice of women in French high society, and Nina Simone’s simple lament felt inspired by the Avenue de Chantilly. Where the more traditional music pairings became incidental, the contemporary pieces were in dialogue with the paintings, both resisting and conforming to the tone suggested by the music.
Akira Rabelais - a composer/software developer/project manager(?) who exudes mystery and tongue-in-cheek-references in everything he does, makes you walk through forked paths, all inspired by one of his favorite writers, Jorge Louis Borges.
