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Mandala Lab at Rubin Museum of Art

Should Museums Prioritize Emotional Wellness Activities? The Rubin Museum of Art Thinks So.

Alexandre Benjamin Navet. (Courtesy Van Cleef & Arpels)

Alexandre Benjamin Navet Presents Flowers, Real and Imagined, on New York’s Fifth Avenue

Installation view of “David Byrne: How I Learned About Non-Rational Logic.” (Courtesy Pace Gallery)

David Byrne’s Drawings Reflect on the Absurdities of Life That Connect Us All

Black and white illustration of a policeman walking on top of a crowd of peaceful protestors holding signs

Featuring Work by World-Class Artists, These Billboards Advertise Activism

The Reverso watch

An Iconic Japanese Woodblock Print, Translated Into a Wrist-Sized Wonder

Two people kissing with black veils over their faces

Antwaun Sargent on the Power of Contemporary Black Art

Audio works from Nancy Holt’s “Tours” and “Visual Sound Zones” series in The Warehouse Dallas exhibition “Sound as Sculpture.” (Photo: Kevin Todora)

In Dallas, the First In-Depth Presentation of Nancy Holt’s Audio Works

A holographic necklace with a yellow gem at the center

In Boucheron’s Latest Collection, Holographic Effects Meet High Jewelry

Two sculptural toilet paper holders.

Toilet-Paper Holders, Reimagined as Works of Art

A patchwork tapestry by Megumi Shauna Arai.

Megumi Shauna Arai’s Enchanting Textiles Are Patchworks of Stories and Traditions

“Common Good Through Crisis” exhibition

With Art and Altruism, an Exhibition Explores the Strength and Beauty of Interconnection

Michael Pinsky's Pollution Pod domes, with people inside and out.

Artist Michael Pinsky’s Climate-Action Plan: “Pollution Pods”

“Untitled” (2018–2019), by Kazunori Hamana and Yukiko Kuroda.

At a Los Angeles Exhibition, “Almost-Dysfunctional” Japanese Pottery That Conveys the Circle of Life

A glass bottle of perfume on a beach

How Louis Vuitton Bottles the Scent of California’s Shoreline

A map of the world with red dots and forms drawn over it.

Rem Koolhaas Brings the Country to the City With a Guggenheim Show

An earthen sculpture in a gallery.

In “Social Works,” Antwaun Sargent Explores the Connections Between Space and Black Social Practice

Olafur Eliasson’s “Tell Me About a Miraculous Invention” (1996). (Photo: Ernest Sackitey. Courtesy SCCA Tamale)

A Multi-Venue Exhibition in Ghana Seeks to Shift Perspectives Through the Lens of Time

A series of bullhorns and purple wiring installed in a gallery corner.

Jónsi of Sigur Rós Expands His Range With a Solo Exhibition in L.A.

Building with the words "blues blood bruise" illuminated on its facade

A New Exhibition Explores the Omnipresence of Black Grief

Two hands cupping a dorodango mud ball.

The Joyful Japanese Art of Making Mud Balls

Giorno's Dial-a-Poem phone in a white gallery setting.

From John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem to Callin’ Oates, Amusing Hotlines to Ring

The San Jose Museum of Art’s clock tower

An Unsettling Sound Installation Blasts Cold, Hard Facts Into Downtown San Jose

Hundreds of flowers spill out of a phone booth on on New York City street corner.

The Story Behind Lewis Miller’s Unforgettable #FlowerFlash Installations

“Windy” spins on New York’s High Line. (Courtesy Meriem Bennani, High Line Art, and Audemars Piguet)

On Manhattan’s High Line, Experimentation Leads to a Whirling, Whizzing, Whooshing Sculpture

A selection of colorful puzzles.

A Renaissance of Artful Puzzle-Making

Art world digital strategist Elena Soboleva

This Art World Digital Strategist Embraces Clubhouse, Memes, and Catalogues Raisonnés

An arrangement of colorful dishes in stone and clay bowls on a wood table.

Marfa’s Culinary Culture, in a New Cookbook

A drawing of a woman looking into a mirror near a window.

This New Platform Makes Fiction Pulled From Real-News Headlines

Installation view of “RE_________” at the ICA Philadelphia. (Courtesy the ICA)

At the ICA Philadelphia, Sissel Tolaas Presents Smell as a Poetic Provocation

A piece of Monique Péan's jewelry.

Jewelry Designer Monique Péan Creates a Feat of Meteoric Proportions, Literally

Maria Cristina Didero. (Photo: Stefan Giftthaler)

Design Miami’s Curatorial Director Sees Art Fairs as Powerful Platforms for Cultural Exchange

Three white, off-kilter sculptures on a white background.

The Obscure Familiarity of Eric Oglander’s Found-Object Sculptures

Charlie Chaplin riding the gears of a massive machine.

What We’re Watching on the Criterion Collection’s New Streaming Service

A bouquet of flowers floating in outer space above planet Earth

The Japanese Artist Who Launched Flowers Into Outer Space

One of Chen and Williams sculptural food machines.

Chen Chen and Kai Williams on Playing With Food

Black and white illustration of a forest on a cliff viewed from above

Calm Your Nerves With This Free-to-Download Quarantine Coloring Book

A grid of multicolored flowers on a black block.

The Scentless Eternal Flowers Made by Japanese Artist Makoto Azuma

Courtesy Lara Call Gastinger

Botanical Artist Lara Call Gastinger on Seeing Scents

Editions of animal photos on Andrew Zuckerman's website.

Andrew Zuckerman’s Exquisite Pictures of the Natural World, Newly Editioned

Mina Stone laughing in her kitchen.

Chef Mina Stone’s Healthy Olive Oil Obsession

Bradley Bowers making one of his cotton paper lamps.

The Crinkled Paper Lanterns of Bradley Bowers, a Magician of Materials

A stick of incense balanced with four pieces of stone

How Folie à Plusieurs Uses Scent to Amplify Emotional Encounters with Art

Our New At a Distance Podcast Takes a Good Look at the Big Picture

Installation view of Marco Fusinato’s “Desastres” at the Venice Biennale. (Photo: Andrea Rossetti)

Marco Fusinato’s Ear-Piercing Endurance Performance at the Venice Biennale

Willi Smith looking into the camera, his hand on a model with a red bathing suit, facing away.

The Cooper-Hewitt’s Exhibition on Willi Smith Is a Must-See

Omar Sosa reclining on a brightly colored couch in his brightly colored Friedman Benda show.

Apartamento Magazine’s Omar Sosa Explores Comfort With a Friedman Benda Show

Cellist Arlen Hlusko

Montana’s Tippet Rise Art Center Goes on Tour With a Four-Day Virtual Classical Music Festival

Azzedina Alaïa's Taking Time on a white desk.

Azzedine Alaïa’s Ruminations on the Value of Taking Time

The Amant Foundation in Brooklyn.

In Brooklyn, a Creative Campus Designed to Slow Artists and Visitors Down

A view into an empty concrete interior with a revolving door at its center

How Tom van Puyvelde Transformed a Berlin Bathhouse Into an Office Rooted in History and Place

People dancing at London's Covent Garden

This Digital Tool Kit Reveals How Art Benefits Our Brains

An “Olfactory Labyrinth” by Maki Ueda

“Olfactory Labyrinths” That Zero In on the Remarkable Act of Smelling

A hand holding a paper origami fortune teller

An Offbeat Exhibition in Madrid Puts the Focus on Curators

Rendering of Drift’s indoor drone performance, “Social Sacrifice” (2022). (Courtesy Drift and Aorist)

In Venice, “CodeX” Offers an Optimistic Take on the Future of Art and Technology

The front and back cover of Spencer Bailey's book, “In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials”

Spencer Bailey on Memorials, Abstraction, and the Act of Unforgetting

An Adam Fuss fungus photogram.

How Mushrooms Have Proliferated as a Material for Art-Making

Anicka Yi’s “Biologizing the Machine (spillover zoonotica)” (2022), on view at Milan’s Pirelli HangarBicocca. (Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca.)

A Potent Anicka Yi Exhibition in Italy Features Bacteria, Artificial Intelligence, and Dried Shrimp

A stack of brick-like bread loaves with a green lawn in the background.

Artist-Baker Lexie Smith on the Beauty, Craft, and Politics of Bread

Images from Family Meal recipes.

Cook These Recipes While Supporting New York City Restaurants

Elizabeth Dee. (Courtesy Independent Art Fair)

Elizabeth Dee on Rethinking the Canon of 20th-Century Art

Marbled, multicolor origami paper.

The Alluring Art of Origami Folding

An artwork from Luiza Gottschalk’s exhibition, “Glade: To Touch Painting,” at Olfactory Art Keller. (Photo: Andreas Keller)

In Manhattan’s Chinatown, a Gallery Invites Visitors to Sniff Its Art

MoMA curator Paola Antonelli

MoMA Curator Paola Antonelli on Pandemics and Protests

A bedroom at the Eliot Noyes House, with a large blue painting, multicolored bedspread, and brass sculpture near a large glass window.

The Colorful History of the Eliot Noyes House, Explained by Abby Bangser

Installation view of “Objects in Sculpture.” (Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago)

With His “Open Objects,” Jonathan Muecke Wants You to Think About Space

Installation view of “A Decade of Discovery: Clyfford Still in Denver.” (Courtesy Clyfford Still Museum)

The Genius of Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still

The Isle Royale in Lake Superior, one of the sites rendered digitally in “A Species Between Worlds.” (Courtesy Life Calling Initiative)

An Exhibition Ponders Technology’s Grip on Human “Reality”

A blue, brown, and translucent sculpture by Neri Oxman.

Neri Oxman’s “Material Ecology” Gets the MoMA Spotlight

A bumpy white chair filled with black holes.

Marlène Huissoud Crafts a Provocative Chair for Insects

Four espresso cups and saucers with a paint splatter motif

How Illycaffè Uses Art to Enhance the Coffee-Drinking Experience

Decorated room screens and sculptures

Yolande Batteau’s Latest Body of Work Reflects a Passionate Personal Investigation of Materials and Self

Amy Helm and the Curbside Pickup Band playing music on a front lawn.

Amy Helm’s Traveling Curbside Pickup Band Brings Live Music to Your Doorstep

Performers in Kevin Beasley’s 2016 sound project “Your Face Is/Is Not Enough.” (Photo: Mark McNulty)

Kevin Beasley’s First Live Outdoor Performance Examines the Everyday Cacophony of a New York City Intersection

Shantell Martin's book, Wonder.

Shantell Martin’s Debut Book Follows the Line of Her Life and Workπ

A diptych of a painting of cherry blossoms

Damien Hirst Presents an Evocative Forest of Cherry Blossoms at Paris’s Fondation Cartier

Three clear perfume vials with insects encased in their glass stand on a white backdrop.

Artist Anicka Yi Mines Biology and Technology to Craft a Line of Perfumes

Lorne M. Buchman

What Roles Do Our Bodies Play in the Creative Process?

Installation image of “The Art of Mushrooms.” (Photo: André Delhaye. Courtesy the Serralves Museum.)

At Portugal’s Serralves Museum, Mushrooms Are Works of Art

A dinner plate depicting an image of a blue eye

The Artist Plate Project’s Limited-Edition Dishes Serve Homeless New Yorkers

Courtesy Mack Books

A New Book Captures the Magnificent Breadth and Melancholic Beauty of Alec Soth’s Photography

(From left) Jules Allen, McArthur Binion, and Henry Threadgill. (Courtesy McArthur Binion)

In Detroit, McArthur Binion and Henry Threadgill Salute Their Decades-Long Friendship Through Song

Courtesy EVA DAO

An NFT Initiative Mixes 3-D Art and Electronic Music

The entrance to the Bauhaus Museum Dessau.

A New Bauhaus Museum Worthy of Its Lineage

A painting of a woman composed of blocks of color.

Derrick Adams’s Evocative “Beauty Works” Series

The book “Designers Against Coronavirus” open on a wood table

The New Book “Designers Against Coronavirus” Is a Powerhouse of Positivity

Photo: John C. Hawthorne. Courtesy Alex Tatarsky.

Alex Tatarsky on Art as a Means to Live Out the Absurd

Rebecca van Bergen. (Photo: Wesley Law)

For Rebecca van Bergen, Craft Is a Means to Change the World

A woman kneels and paints a large rolled canvas on the ground, in front of other paintings lined up on a wall.

Helen Molesworth on the “Radical Women” Featured in the Getty’s New Podcast

Ojas speakers, amplifiers, and turntable in an NYC apartment.

Devon Turnbull on Building His Cultish Handcrafted Speakers

A wild looking bouquet of orange flowers on a blue background.

Entriken’s Katherine Carothers on Creating Beautiful Flower Arrangements at Home

Purple aurora borealis in a Teresita Fernández piece.

Artist Teresita Fernández’s “Archipelago-Like Existence”

Wild Design book by Kimberly Ridley

Nature’s Functional Forms, Billions of Years in the Making

Various people encased in glass bubbles stand on the beach near the ocean

A Digital Art Museum for the Time of Covid-19

A photograph from the series “Eyes as Big as Plates” by Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth. (Photo: Sinikka. Courtesy the artists)

In London, an Exhibition Seeks to Deepen Our Understanding of Interspecies Connection

A plush Mathieu Lehanneur sculpture.

Mathieu Lehanneur’s Ethereal Objects at the Salon Art + Design Fair

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s 2019 drawing “Imitation Lesson; Her Shadowed Influence.” (Courtesy the artist and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden)

A Fictional World Created by Toyin Ojih Odutola Calls Into Question Real-Life Systems of Power and Gender

A classical painting depicting two men and a woman with a funny contemporary caption

In Her New Book, a Comedienne Explains the Mansplainers of the World

A photograph of a woman in a bright red dress on the beach.

Antwaun Sargent’s New Tome to Black Image-Making in Fashion Today

María Elena Pombo stacking bricks for an exhibition.

How Artist and Designer María Elena Pombo Is Sowing Seeds for Change

Curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi

At the Armory Show, an Exhibition Where Artists Share Visions of the Future

An orange and white handout from Black Mountain College.

Black Mountain College Is About to Come to a Screen Near You

Interior of an art installation with walls covered in rainbow-colored words and phrases

New York Inmates and the Ladd Brothers Want You to Think About Prison

A textile in bright streaks of gold, blue, and red.

These Radical Textiles Grew Out of Focused, Open-Minded Attention

Florae exhibition in Paris

These Photographs Bring Van Cleef & Arpels’s Floral Jewelry Into Full Bloom

A doughnut-shaped stone Noguchi sculpture on a plinth.

The Noguchi Museum’s Ginormous Online Archive, at Your Fingertips

Artwork made from draped textiles and wood poles

Try These Energizing Art Lessons from the Studio Museum of Harlem

Three people underneath an Olafur Elaisson video installation.

Olafur Elaisson’s Latest Exhibition Offers a Hopeful Vision of the Future

A bench with a gold plaque on it.

This Public Audio Installation Helps Listeners Take the Long View on Life

Bulbous white sculptures with various forms extending from them in a gallery.

Julian Watts Heeds the Call of the Wild

A blue printed textile hung with aluminum wire in an art gallery.

In Wisconsin, an Exhibition of Analog Art Shaped by Digital Themes

A yellow microphone on a concrete background.

Rashid Johnson Wants You to Speak Your Mind

Three monolithic bread loaves on a yellow tablecloth.

Esther Choi’s Edible Homages to Le Corbusier, Agnes Martin, and Others

Jose Parla in a bright blue jacket and glasses, painting two canvases.

José Parlá’s Cuban Summer Playlist

A round basket with a blue cushion and small cat figurine sitting inside.

The Ingenious Creations of an Instagram Club of Basketmakers

A black and white illustration of plants by Katie Holten.

Emergence Magazine Is at the Top of Our Reading List

Photo: Zeph Colombatto

Sound Is at the Core of Musician-Turned-Ceramicist Kansai Noguchi’s Vases and Vessels

The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin

David Chipperfield Sets a New Stage for Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin

Playfool's Forest Crayons

A Tokyo Design Studio Makes Crayons Out of Wood from Japan’s Overabundant Forests

Author and potter Bonnie Kemske in her studio

A New Book Examines the Enduring Relevance of Kintsugi as Metaphor

Installation view of Christine Sun Kim’s “Time Owes Me Rest Again.” (Photo: Hai Zhang. Courtesy the Queens Museum.)

A Sound Artist Exposes the Complex Relationship Between Deaf and Hearing Cultures

A hallway in AORA’s virtual gallery. (Courtesy AORA)

These Virtual Exhibitions Draw on the Real-Life Health Benefits of Art

Artist and designer Omer Arbel

How Serendipity Helps Omer Arbel Materialize the Unseen

Landscape's Stereo Field, a yellow and gold synthesizer.

These Compact Analog Instruments Pack a Punch

Courtesy ArtReview

ArtReview’s Podcast Collages Audio Out of Artists’ Life and Work

A still from Kandis Williams’s multiscreen work “Triadic Ballet” (2021). (Courtesy the artist and the Rosenkranz Collection.)

In Aspen, an Exhibition Meditates on “Mountain Time”

still from the cartoon "the look make show"

A New Cartoon Uses Art to Teach Kids How to Confront Life’s Challenges

A white wall piece reading "0925" in dotted lines.

Four Do-Not-Miss Highlights at This Year’s Design Miami Fair

A yellow plate half filled with black beans.

Food Artist Laila Gohar Simply Can’t Get Enough of Beans

“Black Girl on Skateboard Going Where She’s Got to Go to Do What She’s Got To Do and It Might Not Have Anything to Do With You, Ever” (2022), by vanessa german. (Courtesy vanessa german and Kasmin)

vanessa german’s Collaged Sculptures Are Ornate Icons of Healing and Protection