- 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
- Contemporary Art
What Will Become of Us? Childhood Loneliness in Rachel Rose’s Lake Valley
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.
- Contemporary Art
Those Marvelous Things: Black Poets and Their Complex of Visual Songs
Both a plea and a polemic, this powerful essay revises how we think about Black art and artists.
- Contemporary Art
Two Radically Different Museums Start an Urgent Discussion
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.
- Contemporary Art
Looking at a Deeply Divided America through a 20/20 Lens
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.
- Contemporary Art
How Artist Lenka Clayton Captures Essential Truths about the Museum
In her series Dispatches from the Museum, artist Lenka Clayton captures the quotidian experiences on view at the museum.
- Contemporary Art
How Alison Knowles’s ‘Event Scores’ Offer Recipes for Action
Following the opening of her exhibition in the Forum Gallery last May, Alison Knowles led an impromptu performance workshop with local artists.
- Contemporary Art
Organizing Delirium: Inside the World of Hélio Oiticica
How Hélio Oiticica challenged the traditional boundaries of art, and its relationship with life, by turning the viewer into participant.
- Contemporary Art
Year of the Monkey: The History Behind Ai Weiwei’s ’Zodiac Heads’
Yi (Sally) Cao examines the meaning and history behind Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads.
- Contemporary Art
Installing Ai Weiwei’s ‘Zodiac Heads’ in the Hall of Architecture
Mark Blatnik, chief preparator at Carnegie Museum of Art, on the challenge of installing Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads in the Hall of Architecture.