Robert Frank’s films include The Sin of Jesus, his 1961 adaptation of an Isaac Babel short story; OK End Here (1963), an intimate chamber piece featuring an original score by the great free jazz ...

“Amongst all the sadness around AIDS,” artist and activist Lola Flash states, “there’s so much joy in the community that has held me.” Revisiting the first two decades of the AIDS crisis often means ...

AH: And it wasn’t just the Rio Olympics that found it useful. EH: NASA has a data visualization team, and they’ve created their own version in the same format, which has also been very popular and ...

“It’s like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘It seemed to be a good idea at ...

This design became a norm for museum collections. The Musée du Louvre, born in 1793 out of the French Revolution, adopted this installation strategy from the beginning. Practically, it allowed ...

On Valentine’s Day 1970, David Mancuso began hosting regular, invitation-only dance parties at his home at 647 Broadway in New York City. Initially started as a way to make rent, these weekly ...

Abel Rodríguez is a sage of the Nonuya people, who live in the Amazon rainforest. He is known as a “plant namer” because of his astonishing ability to remember the wide range of vegetable and animal ...

I do not remember when I first met Richard Serra. But I do remember the first time I was bowled over by his work. It was in the fall of 1996 when I saw the monumental 58x64x70—the title describes the ...

Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Matarile Ediciones I started at Dashwood Books, a store specializing in art books, particularly photography. At a certain point I realized that by working there I had access ...

Early on, for example, Laurie Spiegel sent me a few options, the first being the original files of her piece Kepler’s Harmony of the World, which uses the astronomical sounds of planets; the other was ...

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take ...

The Learning Tree. 1969. Gordon Parks I saw this film when I was 18 years old, and Gordon Parks was at that time one of my heroes. So to see a film about his childhood in Kansas was so riveting and ...