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The Los Angeles Native Bringing a Distinctive Look to Art Basel’s New Uniforms
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The Los Angeles Native Bringing a Distinctive Look to Art Basel’s New Uniforms

In collaboration with GOAT, Diana Yesenia Alvarado brings symbols of resilience and curiosity to her design, capturing the spirit of East LA Diana Yesenia Alvarado, a Los Angeles-based artist making a name for herself with rough-hewn, large-scale ceramic sculptures, brings the textures and colors of East LA into her work. She draws from hand-painted murals,...

Basel Says: Your Essential Guide to Art Basel Miami Beach 2024
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Basel Says: Your Essential Guide to Art Basel Miami Beach 2024

Exclusive tours, bespoke products, how to get around: the show at your fingertips Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 is around the corner. Brimming with exceptional art and events, the show opens to the public on Friday, December 6 – unless you would like to attend the exclusive vernissage on the afternoon of Thursday, December 5 (get...

The Opera and The Magic Flute
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The Opera and The Magic Flute

The Florida Grand Opera’s staging of The Magic Flute is a truly astonishing update on the classic Mozart opera. The FGO and director Jeffery Marc Buchman have gone beyond the usual expectations for this lavish fantasy of an opera, and have rooted it in reality by framing with dream sequences of an actual, contemporary child....

SETI Institute Launches Art and AI Residency, Unveils Six Nominees for Innovative Program
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SETI Institute Launches Art and AI Residency, Unveils Six Nominees for Innovative Program

The SETI Artist in Residency (AIR) program announced Algorithmic Imaginings, a new residency that explores how AI technologies affect science and society. The residency focuses on creative research topics such as imaginary life, human-AI collaboration, AI futures, posthumanism, AI and consciousness, and the ethics of AI data. It also connects with current SETI Institute research, including...

The Transformative Power of Film
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The Transformative Power of Film

A new study has found that after watching a docudrama about the efforts to free a wrongly convicted prisoner on death row, people were more empathetic toward formerly incarcerated people and supportive of criminal justice reform. The research, led by a team of Stanford psychologists, published Oct. 21 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

The Many Whims of Kara Chin
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The Many Whims of Kara Chin

The Singapore-born, UK–based artist pieces together ceramics, installations, and animations with intuition and emotion When Kara Chin was a child, she would sit at the back of her sister’s ballet class. She hated to twirl and point, but she did enjoy drawing the dancers. At home, she sat in the kitchen and drew food, kitchen...

Shanghai: An Art Ecosystem in Transition
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Shanghai: An Art Ecosystem in Transition

Still recovering from COVID-19 lockdown measures and navigating new developments in the Chinese economy, November 2023 art week in Shanghai was a litmus test Shanghai’s art world moves quickly, passing through a couple of cycles every decade or so, as new waves of artists, writers, gallerists, collectors, and entrepreneurial interlopers of all kinds and from...