The courtyard of Ben Youssef Madrasa, Marrakech. China Crisis / CC BY-SA 2.5.Marrakech is often reduced to one irresistible photograph: a wall of saturated Majorelle blue against cactus green. That image deserves to be seen, but an art journey through the city becomes...
Artist's concept of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. NASA Goddard Conceptual Image Lab / NASA editorial reuse.Before a telescope can reveal the universe, human hands must build an object capable of surviving the journey. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope...
Anish Kapoor, photographed in 2017. Bengt Oberger / CC BY-SA 4.0.Anish Kapoor has spent decades giving emptiness a surface. At the Hayward Gallery in London, that pursuit becomes physical: pigment appears bottomless, polished forms disturb the room, and openings...
Exterior of the Rothko Chapel, Houston, photographed in 2020. WhisperToMe / CC0 1.0.Mark Rothko’s paintings were made to surround the viewer with color, yet they are now thriving at the scale of a phone. Across TikTok and Instagram, younger creators are matching...
The National Gallery, London. Adam Bishop / CC BY-SA 3.0.Art influencers were once treated as cheerful outsiders to the serious museum conversation. Now institutions are inviting them in, paying for partnerships and measuring the views. A report published by Le Monde...
Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, viewed from the west. Beyond My Ken / CC BY-SA 4.0.The phrase “a realistic day in my life” arrives online carrying a contradiction. The video is edited, framed and posted for strangers, yet the word realistic...
Sterling Ruby, BC3549. Archival artwork image supplied by the artist. Sterling Ruby / CC BY-SA 1.0.At Gagosian Paris, the walls have turned blue and the flowers have become bronze. Sterling Ruby’s TILL DEATH DO US PART uses the gallery as an emotional field: cyanotype...
Olafur Eliasson speaking at TED, February 5, 2009. Bill Holsinger-Robinson / CC BY 2.0.Olafur Eliasson makes art from conditions we often stop noticing: light entering a room, water changing direction, color lingering in the eye, a reflection reorganizing space. His...
Julie Mehretu receiving the Medal of Arts from John Kerry, January 21, 2015. U.S. Department of State / Public domain.Julie Mehretu speaks about abstraction as a place where another form can become possible. She does not offer the viewer a diagram of current events,...
Solange performing at Piknik i Parken, Oslo, June 23, 2017. Tore Sætre / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0.Solange Knowles creates more than songs and performances. She creates rooms—physical, editorial and imaginative rooms—where Black artistic lineages can meet without being...