The theme of the 58th annual Smithsonian Folklife festival, running July 2 through 7, is “Youth and the Future of Culture.” ...

The final energy invites us beyond pleasure, beyond even the body, into the transcendent. Like tantra, intimacy is much more ...

Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses" unites Cole’s botanical porcelain with works by eight women artists in a bold ...

This article by J.D. Harlock, was first published in Raseef22 on April 23, 2025. This edited version was published on Global Voices as part of a media partnership agreement. In 2022, Nour Hifaoui ...

This year, we’re going back in time – 100 years, to be precise, says Rachel Loos, who looks at the origins of Art Deco as a vision for living a modern, glamorous life in the 1920s, and how it ...

If, in the art of the past, nakedness was associated with “Truth” in general, it became explicitly connected in the 20th century with one very particular truth: our own mortality.

Karin Hindsbo, the director of Tate Modern, wants the London gallery to become much bolder. “I want us to take real risks,” she declares in her interview with The Art Newspaper. “I am sure ...

During Japan's Edo period, shunga became popular with everyone from rural peasants to the wealthy ruling class — even after it was outlawed in 1722. The words “Japanese erotic art” may bring to mind ...