Every year, New York Design Week brings an increasingly massive wave of design and tech-related events, conjuring big crowds and high-concept ideas. But for the casual consumer of everyday design, the week also brings more user-friendly activations, like those for Sight Unseen Presents, a platform emphasizing the intersection of ... More

Every two years, the world-renowned Venice Biennale opens to the public from May to November and highlights some of the most innovative genres of contemporary art including dance, cinema and theatre. The Biennale Foundation first hosted the exhibition in 1895 in order to establish a new market for contemporary art. Today, ... More

HG Contemporary will host artist Laura Kimpton’s solo exhibition from May 4 through May 26, 2017. The multimedia exhibition, called If WORDS could SPEAK, will focus on the importance of words within text, speech and sculpture.  Different installations will be presented as a complete and cohesive show, including a new series of "Word ... More

To Austrian craftsman and designer Robert Stadler , a couch is never just a couch. “Is it liquid or is it solid? It’s in the middle,” says gallerist Julien Lombrail of one of Stadler’s earlier works, an ultra low-rise leather sectional that looks like a sofa crossed with an oil ... More

Given how poorly Napoleon Bonaparte cared for his trademark hats, it’s a wonder any are still in existence. The diminutive emperor (5’ 6’’ without a lid) was reportedly prone to throw and kick them to the ground when angry—which, famously, he often was—or simply lose them in battle, only to ... More

Resistance movements shape the societies they challenge, nowhere more than in the United States: The country’s entire narrative can be schematized as a series of transformative fights against “the Man,” starting with the American Revolution and culminating ... More

Even in this tumultuous economy, the art market is estimated to generate about $64 billion a year. ... More

In the bright, unseasonably mild Saturday that was January 21, the Women’s March on NYC—a protest against the arguably misogynistic temperament of the new administration—saw an estimated 400,000 frustrated New Yorkers slowly but determinedly snake up Fifth Avenue. A few blocks away, on West 45th Street, Laura Dreyfuss, who plays ... More