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Once sites of shock and provocation, museums are reinventing themselves as places of calm and care. From meditation cushions to medical studies, art is now being prescribed for everything from burnout to chronic illness. But what happens when comfort replaces critique?
Updated August 12, 2024 at 11:50 a.m. The largest and most complete T-Rex skeleton, named “Sue,” was found on this day in 1990, in South Dakota, United States, on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Who discovered the T-Rex skeleton? The T-Rex skeleton was discovered by Sue Hendrickson, a paleontologist and fossil collector. She was part […]
Presented at Madrid’s Matadero cultural center until late July, “Climate Fitness, Rituals of Adaptability” features five works that invite visitors to question the social and economic structures that have led to the climate crisis and consider other possible futures.
The new “Sneakers” exhibition in Dusseldorf features pairs that sell for six figures and explores how the simple sports shoe became a global obsession.
An exhibition of Indian commercial posters from the 1920s to the 1960s at Le Méridien in New Delhi offers a “time capsule” into the rapidly evolving society of that time.
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami has unveiled a large fresco capturing the history of economics, from the Sumerians to Elon Musk, at a gallery in the suburbs of Paris. French journalist Yann Rousseau met him in his studio near Tokyo.
In a country where money is taboo and culture is sacred, French artist Aurélie Galois navigates the uneasy relationship between following your muse and paying your rent.
The Costantini collection of Latin American art, on display in Buenos Aires, includes family photos of Mexico’s Frida Kahlo, whose singular paintings and resilience in suffering made her, in death, a symbol of female strength and creativity.
Audiovisual spectacles like Imagine Van Gogh offer a completely new way to experience art. But as museums embrace digital tools, what does that mean for the physical work of art.
There’s a bitter irony when an exhibit titled ‘Non-Freedom of Expression’ itself faces censorship.
Are explicitly polemical art works, by now a tradition in modern culture, related to the wave of rebellions across the world? Or are they just a moneymaking tool?
There’s something strangely familiar about the 99 images on display at the Abadía Art and Latin American Studies Center in Buenos Aires.
An exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris explores a key moment in the artist’s relationship with his models and his world over the course of a single pivotal year.
The grandest museums increasingly share their most prestigious exhibitions across borders for both aesthetic and economic reasons.
An artist duo from Zurich is using sex-talk avatars to pose some burning questions about the future of human-computer relationships.
The Swiss photographer gets inside an often impenetrable community and emerges with a portrait that both shines and confounds.
Art Week and the sumptuous events around its star show, Art Basel Miami Beach, was a perfect showcase not just for art, but also guiltless expenditure of vast amounts of cold hard cash.
The Argentine embassy in Paris has gathered pictures and objects that piece together the life of Eva Peron, the loved and loathed first lady who became a “mother” to the poor in 1940s.
BASEL – Johann Ludwig Burckhardt’s bust can be seen at the foot of the monumental staircase of his family’s palace in Basel, Switzerland. It is hard to believe that this is his family home when you see his long curled beard and oriental turban. Burckhardt – also known as Sheikh Ibrahim – who died at […]
PARIS – Ever seen a human scalp transformed into a drumhead? Or a shrunken head with its lips sewn shut to keep the dead from casting spells from beyond the grave? With their hair uncannily preserved, these centuries-old trophies seem to have retained all their eerie powers. They are some of the key pieces of […]