The Must-See Outdoor Art Installations of 2020
Last September, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum underwent a makeover of epic proportions when Kor...
How Japanese Artist Chiura Obata Came to Be an American Great
When Japanese artist Chiura Obata arrived in the United States in 1903, he brought an immigrant’s dr...
Recognition of Major Osage Leader and Warrior Opens a New Window Into History
In 1904, the priest of the Gentle Sky clan, Shonke Mon-thi^ , came to Washington, D.C. as a member of...
Lee Ufan’s Transformative Sculptures Are in Dialogue With the Spaces They Inhabit
When the Korean artist Lee Ufan was first commissioned to do a site-specific exhibition in the plaza...
A Photographer Captures Contrasts and Characters in Barcelona’s Streets Submit Now to Our 16th Annual Photo Contest
Josep Fabrega Agea has never forgotten the first time he set foot in a darkroom. At age nine, his father...
Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ Is as Relevant Today as It Was in 1971
Motown wasn’t really known for its politically conscious music. Then came “What’s Going On.”Released...
How the Inca Discovered a Prized Pigment
In 1908, at a lab in Niagara Falls, New York, a metallurgist named Auguste Rossi invented a brilliant...
Illuminating the Shadowy Art of Armenian Puppet Theater
Behind a screen, puppets mounted on long, slim sticks dance and sway, twirling, backlit so that only...
The Topsy-Turvy Worldview of Georg Baselitz
Encountering the first upside down figure in the massive retrospective of German artist Georg Baselit...
These Soulful, Soothing Armenian Songs and Instrumentals Blend East With West
One of the first times that Ara Dinkjian performed on stage with his father was in New York City dur...
The Botanical Artist Who Translates Plant Science Into Beautiful Art
Alice Tangerini’s botanical illustrations all begin the same way: with a seemingly simple line drawi...
A New, Interactive Sculpture by Suchi Reddy Illuminates Our Hopes and Fears About the Future
At the first event of the Smithsonian’s new Arts and Industries Building—the 1881 inauguration ball...
This Musician’s Songs Give Powerful Voice to a Language in Crisis
Alidé Sans , a 25-year-old singer-songwriter known for her soulful voice and upbeat, rumba- and regg...
Where to See the Best Mural Festivals Around the World
Mural festivals are art fairs taken up a notch—a building-sized notch. Artists flock to different ci...
For Hundreds of Years, Papier-Mâché Has Lent a Surreal Face to Catalan Culture
Rarely is the inflation of cultural icons as literal or striking as it is in the festivals of Catalonia...
This Los Angeles Grocery Store Has 31,000 Items — and You Can’t Eat Any of Them
A California hotel has opened its very own grocery store — only it sells no actual food. The potato...
Are NFTs an Art World Fad or Its Future?
When a graphic designer from Charleston, S.C., who goes by the name of Beeple, sold a digital work f...
Coming of Age in Poetry: An Interview with Elexia Alleyne
Afrolatinidad: Art & Identity in D.C. is an interview series highlighting the vitality of the local...
This Artist Dwells in the Clandestine World of Classified Secrets and Surveillance
Trevor Paglen thinks of himself as working in the tradition of the landscape photographer.So much so...
The Age-Old Tradition of Armenian Carpet Making Refuses to Be Swept Under the Rug
Twin sisters Sahkanush and Haykanush Stepanyan learned rugmaking while still teenagers at a craft ce...