“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 ...

An homage in three acts: Louise Lawler shares a postcard, Christopher Williams remembers Baldessari’s studio, and Stephen Prina sings one of the great Conceptualist’s paintings. Christopher Williams, ...

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By now it’s come to this: you’ve baked six different kinds of bread; you’ve grown tired of your colleagues’ stabs at humor and their zany Zoom backgrounds; you’ve finally mastered your kids’ remote ...

A good book can transport you to another time and place, invite you to see things you hadn’t noticed before, or inspire you to try something new. Young or old, now seems like the perfect time to curl ...

Shigeko Kubota was an indomitable figure whose multidisciplinary career spanned more than five decades. Her pivotal video sculptures from the 1970s and ’80s, several of which are featured in the ...

Elizabeth Catlett ’s terra cotta sculpture Mother and Child stands less than a foot off of its pedestal, but it feels much larger. It conveys an expansiveness that comes, to my mind, from the uncanny ...

In this interview from 2013, the artist discusses his work and the beginnings of the Beirut-based photography archive.

Tune in Thursday, July 2, at 8:00 p.m. EDT for a live Q&A with Stuart Comer and artist Joan Jonas, as they discuss seven works by some of today’s most important video artists, and how they reflect the ...

The Learning Tree. 1969. Gordon Parks I saw this film when I was 18 years old, and Gordon Parks was at that time one of my heroes. So to see a film about his childhood in Kansas was so riveting and ...

At the height of Cold War tensions, deploying such a media-technical apparatus in service of world peace might have seemed an urgent task for artists, technological advances having long fueled ...

The designers discuss the process of creating a “typeface with a political purpose” for artist Titus Kaphar’s Redaction project.