Trevor Paglen was born in 1974 in Camp Springs, Maryland. Trained as a geographer and photographer, Paglen makes the invisible visible by documenting the American surveillance state of the 21st ...

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Music echoes throughout a greenhouse in Iceland as artist Ragnar Kjartansson and a crew of close friends and long-time collaborators film his latest project, a performance set inside Europe’s oldest ...

Strolling the boardwalks of Coney Island, artist Trey Abdella gets inspiration from the camp, craft, and engineering hidden within the rides and attractions, discovering surprising new strategies for ...

(Film 2 of 4) Moving seamlessly between the idyllic landscapes of upstate New York and the simulated worlds of The Sims or Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V), artist Jacky Connolly explores the increasingly ...

At 52 Walker, a gallery in New York City, iconic figures like Miles Davis, Adrian Piper, and Michel Foucault are carefully arranged to form artist Arthur Jafa’s Large Array II (2024), a collage of ...

Surrounded by jars of brushes, tubes of paint, and makeshift painting palettes, artist Amy Sherald holds her face inches from the canvas, reveling in the slow and meditative practice of painting. In ...

When most of my students come to me, their understanding of art has been formed to fit a homogenized construct of how art manifests in the world. Often, they have yet to learn that art could look like ...

Donning futuristic regalia adorned with clanging bells and protective padding, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger prepares to shoot a video for his multimedia project Future Ancestral Technology ...

Standing amid brick buildings and concrete roads, artist Linda Goode Bryant works the land, supplying underserved communities with plant-based food through Project EATS, which she founded. Her work in ...

Joiri Minaya was born in 1990 in New York City, where she currently lives and works. She grew up in the Dominican Republic, earning Associate’s Degrees from La Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales in ...

Michael Rakowitz uses everyday objects to render lost artifacts into ghostly new forms. Interview by Ian Forster, edited by Carina Martinez Ian Forster – Could you tell me how this project began and ...