- Contemporary Art

On Owls, Migration, and Hotel Rooms: A Lyric Essay
The owl in Doug Aitken’s migration (empire) leads Adriana E. Ramírez to reflect on the circumstances that lead humans and animals to travel far from home.
Installation view, Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium. Photo: Bryan Conley
The owl in Doug Aitken’s migration (empire) leads Adriana E. Ramírez to reflect on the circumstances that lead humans and animals to travel far from home.
The nighttime journey of the protagonist in Rachel Rose's Lake Valley echoes the themes of well-known stories from the golden age of children's literature, as Brittney Knotts explains.
Both a plea and a polemic, this powerful essay revises how we think about Black art and artists.
Amanda Hunt and Eric Crosby discuss the impetus behind the exhibition 20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art, which brings both museum's very different collections into conversation.
A unique collaboration between Carnegie Museum of Art and Studio Museum in Harlem combines works of the past and present to give voice to shifting, contemporary realities.
In her series Dispatches from the Museum, artist Lenka Clayton captures the quotidian experiences on view at the museum.
Following the opening of her exhibition in the Forum Gallery last May, Alison Knowles led an impromptu performance workshop with local artists.
How Hélio Oiticica challenged the traditional boundaries of art, and its relationship with life, by turning the viewer into participant.
Yi (Sally) Cao examines the meaning and history behind Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads.
Mark Blatnik, chief preparator at Carnegie Museum of Art, on the challenge of installing Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads in the Hall of Architecture.