The lights were off, the air smelled faintly of roses, and New Age music flowed from room to room. TeamLab, a Japanese art collective of six hundred “ultratechnologists”—artists, software engineers, animators, and architects—had taken over an eighty-five-hundred-square-foot gallery at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. Their “interactive landscape,” called “teamLab: Continuity,” […]

The full story of colonial plundering lies not in museum displays but in unopened, uncatalogued boxes in store rooms

Two small exhibitions, one at the Met Cloisters, the other at the Wallach Art Gallery, bring the personal and political dynamics of devotional art to the fore.

Art trends come and go throughout the years, just as our tastes in food, interiors, and fashion change with time. Art constantly reinvents itself, and the quest for newness and uniqueness lies at the heart of artistic expression.

The New Year usually brings new beginnings, but one thing will remain unchanged in 2022: the sheer volume of immersive art experiences that will drench our social media feeds on the daily. Although Vincent van Gogh was the focus of plenty of shows in 2021, immersive art lovers will be treated to […]

A big bit of art news from last week was the protest organized by dozens of Dutch museums against “inconsistent” lockdown protocols, with art institutions shuttered by omicron—including the Van Gogh Museum and the Mauritshuis—defiantly reopening for a day as nail salons, barber shops, and gyms (because workout and grooming services were […]

Art and other cultural heritage objects in Yale’s renowned collections tend to travel. The university’s museums and libraries frequently loan objects to one another, as well as to institutions across the country and abroad, for display in public exhibitions. The journeys of these pieces can generate commentary in the form […]

We tend to think of museums and galleries as visual spaces, but it’s important to remember that a visit to a museum can be just as worthwhile for blind and partially sighted individuals as it is for visitors who don’t live with visual impairments.

For the cultural sector, 2022 opened on a minor note. The coming of Omicron has prompted a new ripple of museum closures and event postponements, as the world girds itself for yet another pandemic year. Which is not to say that the cultural outlook is entirely dim: digital projects continue to emerge, the NFT marketplace bustles […]

Following a year of pandemic-accelerated innovation, 2021 saw the arts and culture sectors reorient themselves around the digital sphere. The need to continually engage their newfound audiences has compelled institutions to boost their virtual offerings, consider new mediums such as NFTs, and retool their approaches to inclusivity and accessibility.