Expectations for a future of unlimited potential abounded in the period of political liberation and decolonization across the African continent. In 1957, Ghana peacefully gained independence from ...

Frida and Diego: The Last Dream celebrates Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera —two of Mexico’s most beloved icons of 20th-century art—in a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera.

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 ...

A relentless explorer, April Greiman has been pushing the boundaries between design, art, and technology for over four decades. Her layered work merges analog and digital, handmade and mechanically ...

In the summer of 1978, when I was a Long Island kid just out of high school, my life was changed by a trip to a Greenwich Village repertory film theater. It was the Art Cinema on 8th Street, which, ...

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.

Hear from artists, writers, and therapists about what happens when art and grief collide.

Beginning in 1917, the largest room of the apartment that they shared at 3 rue Joseph Bara was turned into a studio for Modigliani. There, the artist was supplied with canvas, paint, and a stipend of ...

Elena Subach is a visual artist and photographer based in Lviv, Ukraine. She is currently researching the legacy of the photographer and filmmaker Yulian Dorosh and Lviv photography from the first ...

Wright not only welcomed this hypothetical migration, he sought to design it. At the 1935 National Alliance of Arts and Industry Exposition at Rockefeller Center, he unveiled a massive, ...

Discover how a uniquely modern American art form found a home at a uniquely modern American museum. Through original recordings, archival audio, and new interviews with jazz legends like Sonny Rollins ...

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 ...