Art and Culture

Hyperallergic - Yesterday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a promised gift of 91 Native American artworks from collectors Charles and Valerie Diker. The donation succeeds 20 objects the Dikers have giv...

Hyperallergic - One hundred and twenty-five years ago today, Henry Darger was born at home to a poor couple in Chicago. His mother died four years later; not long afterwards, Darger was separated from his sick ...

BBC - António da Madelena, a Portuguese Capuchin friar, was one of the first Western visitors to Angkor Wat, the monumental and moated 12th Century Hindu-Buddhist temple in what, today, is northern Cambodia. It...

Artsy - Piet Mondrian was almost 70 when he had his first solo show, but his bold, geometric paintings have since become iconic. Lesser-known (but no less fascinating), however, are the spaces where the De Stij...