Our sense of safety is what gets fundamentally disrupted in the presence of trauma. Our capacity to maintain and direct our attention becomes fragmented. Learning to harness attention is a primary ...

Part 1. Searching for Iemanjá: On the Move If you’re looking for Iemanjá in Salvador, Brazil, you’ll find traces of Her wherever you go. In the touristy Pelourinho neighborhood, Her smiling face ...

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take ...

An homage in three acts: Louise Lawler shares a postcard, Christopher Williams remembers Baldessari’s studio, and Stephen Prina sings one of the great Conceptualist’s paintings. Christopher Williams, ...

A good book can transport you to another time and place, invite you to see things you hadn’t noticed before, or inspire you to try something new. Young or old, now seems like the perfect time to curl ...

Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother —made on the edge of a frozen pea field in Nipomo, California, while she was working for the US government in early March 1936—is arguably the most famous photograph ...

The artist details the clash of history and the present in her photograph.

Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's landmark photobook An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion weaves together text drawn from field notes, folk song lyrics, newspaper excerpts, sociological ...

The artist talks about Claude Monet, the muscle memory of painting, and why he’s packing a tube of orange paint for his summer in Maine.

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.

Make your own home movie. We challenge you to momentarily leave our homebound present by creating a short home movie set in the past or the future—get creative with filters, props, and costumes and ...

Of the myriad apparatuses Strickfaden invented and constructed for Frankenstein, his pride and joy was a colossal Tesla coil he called the Megavolt Senior. This machine could spew bolt-like lightning ...