IN AN OBSCURE alleyway near Lisbon’s Alcântara neighborhood, the Fábrica Sant’Anna has been producing azulejos—the Portuguese word for wall tiles—roughly the same way since the workshop’s founding in 1741. At long tables scattered with pots of myriad colors, artisans paint angels…
A painting that dares to stare back at you
Looking at pictures teaches you to live with uncertainty. Yes, there are other ways to learn the lesson. (Living through a pandemic will do it.) But if you want to combine an apprehension of strangeness and unknowability with mental absorption…
French museum renames masterpieces after Black subjects
French art masterpieces have been renamed after their long overlooked black subjects in a ground-breaking new Paris show on the representation of people of colour in art. Manet’s “Olympia”, the scandalous painting of a naked reclining prostitute that marks the…
Ancient Middle East art and identity showcased at New York museum
Cultures collide at the latest exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which focuses on the Middle East nearly 2,000 years ago. A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is looking at the Middle East, going…
Here is the world’s first robotics museum–built by robots, of course The first exhibition of Seoul’s Robot Museum will be the robots building the museum itself.
Seoul wants to have the world’s very first museum dedicated to robotic science. And the city authorities have decided on the best possible way to build it: use robots, of course. The museum, designed by Turkish architectural firm Melike Altınışık, is…
“One: Egúngún” at Brooklyn Museum explores story of 20th century Yorùbá masquerade dance costume
The Brooklyn Museum is hosting a special exhibition titled “One: Egungun,” at its Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia Gallery of Contemporary Art. The exhibition is on view through August 18, 2019. “Egungun” refers to the Yoruba masquerades connected with ancestor reverence,…