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Though only a few vestiges of this history remain, Union Square used to be known as New York City’s "Book Row," a literary commercial corridor once home to over three dozen booksellers between Union ...

Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...

“Madonna and Child (‘Laudato No’)” by Nick Leeper (Photo: Courtesy of the author). “Les Grands Transparents” by Man Ray (Photo: Courtesy of the author). Founded in 2019 by Liana Marabini, the Biennale ...

It has been written about Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976) that she honors Lakota culture while expanding its expression through new art forms and innovations. Better stated, she honors ...

A giant ice sculpture of the word “democracy” was unveiled on the National Mall Wednesday. The melting piece of art is meant to symbolize “America’s weakened democracy and the costs of its failure ...

Gertrude Greene was not an obvious choice to become a radical force in American abstract art. She was a woman born in 1906 to middle-class department store owners in Brooklyn. She was also a ...

What if you could distill the essence of creativity into 25 distinct visual languages, each brimming with texture, rhythm, and emotion? Abstract art, with its boundless capacity for interpretation, ...

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 1971. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation, VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025 Given the period the exhibition represents ...

“My work,” said Bourgeois, “is a repeated attempt at seducing somebody” and in an absurdist way, the whole show is about seduction. Some of the sculptures are overtly sexual, most subliminally so.