Ever since the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 inspired a wave of sourdough starters and Zoom drawing classes, hobbies have been having a resurgence. These seven podcasts spotlight their importance, featuring expert tips and interviews with casual hobbyists that may inspire you to pick up a new pastime. ‘The Dork Forest’ …
Read More »Museums Around the Country Explore Democracy
This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. It’s always nice to put a face to a name, and visitors to the new exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — “Power …
Read More »A Chicago Museum Looks at How Painting Has Evolved
This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. Back in 1838, Louis Daguerre captured the first photo of a human being with revolutionary technology. Not long after, the French painter Paul Delaroche …
Read More »These Museum Exhibits Have To Be Smelled To Be Believed
This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. It’s rare to experience art in a nearly totally dark room. But last year at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, that’s where visitors …
Read More »Art Museums Reach Out to Visitors From Behind Closed Doors
This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. When you think of museums or galleries or auction houses you can’t help but think of buildings. Sometimes old stately stone ones with statues …
Read More »At the San Francisco Modern Art Museum, Using Sports to Explore Social Trends
This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. “Guernica” hangs prominently on the seventh floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, its haphazard forms, oversized limbs and frenetic energy urging …
Read More »As Georgia Decides Its Future, Artists Are Worried About Theirs
On a sultry late summer night, in a horseshoe-shaped club cantilevered over the Mtkvari River that cuts Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, in two, the artist and drag performer Andro Dadiani was belting out the last bars of his aria act a cappella. Wearing a sweeping ball skirt the same shade of …
Read More »Gary Indiana, Acerbic Cultural Critic and Novelist, Dies at 74
Gary Indiana, the elfin novelist, cultural critic, playwright and artist whose crackling prose and lacerating wit captured the ravages of the AIDS crisis, Manhattan’s downtown art scene, lurid true crimes and his own search for love, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 74. The cause was …
Read More »Art Can Fight Climate Change in More Ways Than One
This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. Visitors to the Hammer Museum’s show “Breath(e) Toward Climate and Social Justice” will be greeted by powerful works portraying the widespread impact of ecological …
Read More »Neva: A Ravishing Color Palette for a Silent Adventure
Anyone who has seen “Princess Mononoke,” Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 masterpiece about a young warrior and her wolf who battle to stave off an ecological disaster, will almost certainly discern its influence on the video game Neva. Both open against the backdrop of a once pristine natural environment that has been …
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