An artist’s quixotic attempt to convince The New Yorker to embrace photography.Nina Howell Starr’s “The New Yorker Project,” currently on view at Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky, is a collection of photos and archival material never intend…
Finding artistic inspiration in YA lit.At the behest of his preteen daughter, Hamza Walker set off one Saturday in search of Insurgent, the second book in Veronica Roth’s wildly popular Divergent trilogy. The book had been published the day before,…
A professor’s unlikely quest for busts of Alexander Pope. [portfolio_slideshow include="71721,71722,71723,71724,71725,71726,71727,71728,71729,71730,71731,71732,71733" exclude="71734"] “Fame and Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac, and the Portrait Bu…
[portfolio_slideshow include="70490,70489,70488,70487,70486,70485,70484,70483,70482" exclude="70491"] Late last year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled “Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China,” the institution’s first survey of c…
[portfolio_slideshow include="67186,67187,67189,67190,67191,67192,67193,67194,67195,67196,67197" exclude="67188"] Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity, on view at the Drawing Center in New York through this week, seeks to claim the status of artist for…