Arts

The Secret World of Elephants is filled with interactive activities about our gargantuan cousins that are as much fun for grown-ups as they are for kids.

The NYC show for all types of collectors, open through Sunday, has been attracting more visitors thanks to what organizers say is a “sweet spot” in prices.

This week: a 200-year-old message in a bottle, the poetry of Marcellus Williams, Ta-Nehisi Coates changes his mind, a new Mozart banger, and much more.

The humans (and rats) of New York are rejoicing.

Amidst wreckage sites and bomb shelters, artists are making work, manufacturing drones, and celebrating life.

No Prior Art at the Los Angeles Public Library shows off inventions and patents from unlikely creators and allows audiences to become inventors.

“I’ve tried establishing routines, but I always end up reverting to a more spontaneous approach.”

Just as memes of the viral hippo range from sweet to spooky, art history is rich with terrifying, adorable, and bizarre depictions of the amphibious creatures.

“It’s about people with the courage and perseverance to insist that politicians and media tell the truth,” the artist told Hyperallergic.

Her sculptures for The Met’s facade commission look like they’ve always been there, Frankensteined in the bowels of the museum’s ethnographic collections.

Tanning’s practice shows that there is always another door to open, a new world to explore, and that art offers us another possible existence.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History features the work of Baldwin-obsessed artist Sabrina Nelson on the centennial of the famed author’s birth.

“You will return to me,” says the land in a short video work projected onto the Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown’s Kimlau Square, and other locations across the city.

Concluding its nationwide tour at the Asia Society, Maḏayin gathers intricate eucalyptus bark works by artists from the Indigenous community of Yirrkala.

Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers boasts some curatorial firsts and delights in the artist’s explosion of experimental color and expressive, urgent feeling.

The giant video projection of artifacts in Past Deposits is in constant conversation with the pedestrians, roadways, and architecture that surround it.

The artists in this exhibition know that we cannot simply “get over” the history of racialization, as well as the destructive legacy of US imperialism.

How did our collective obsession with the moisturized and unbothered hippo spiral into cuteness aggression?

La Feria featured art, books, posters, stickers, and more by at least 30 artists, whose offerings were as richly varied as the fair’s playlist.

Rather than his military prowess or finely crafted weapons, it was Sikhism that sustained Ranjit Singh’s empire.