Karyn Olivier’s work can often read as elusive. An expansive artist whose practice floats across various mediums, her works take many forms: a white column that rests on a historical table, a set of 15 stacked orange construction barriers, heaps of found …

WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, Belgium is currently presenting the exhibition Christopher Kulendran Thomas: Safe Zone, featuring mixed media works by Christopher Kulendran Thomas, an artist of Tamil descent with roots in Sri Lanka. The solo …

Eleanor Polak photo Ashley the Creator and her painting Emotional Orange. According to legend — and poet Christina Rossetti — one should never eat fruit offered by fairies. It’s considered illicit, otherworldly, and so good that one taste will leave you …

… the outdoor art installation of Art Bears that was on exhibit at … works are featured on the Art Bears include Tiffany Johnson, Bobbi Eike … the one-of-a-kind Art Bears and the adorable cubs. They …

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Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperilled Future. By Gloria Dickie. W.W. Norton; 272 pages; $30 and £25 When Michael Bond wrote his first draft of “A Bear Called Paddington” in the 1950s, he described his hat-clad protagonist as hailing from “darkest Africa …

An eerie chill went through me when I saw the news report. The remains of 215 children had been discovered in a mass grave in Canada. Just hours before I had been editing an article about an exhibition, Artivism: The Atrocity Prevention Pavilion, showing …

Before he fled Myanmar in 2017, a witness to unspeakable horrors in his Rohingya village, Mohammed Nur would produce art in hiding, drawing on napkins and trash with bits of charcoal. Art, poetry readings and a university education were among many aspects …

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… around Gorki, it highlights how art bears witness and sparks transformation⁠—not …