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get to spend time in museums. during my working life and i have witnessed something astonishing, how radically they have changed. the days of museums as grand, intimidating treasuries for dusty objects, they are long gone. they are becoming much more dynamic and inclusive, less solemn, less elitist, museums, i believe, are having a moment and thats what i want to explore. it is art of thats what i want to explore. it is part of the — thats what i want to explore. it is part of the st...

about in a boat on this exact spot in the arabian gulf half a century ago, what would you have seen? not the futuristic cityscape before me today, thats for sure — because in recent decades, doha has witnessed unbelievably rapid change. i cant help thinking that the same is true of art history. this excitingly dynamic discipline thats always evolving. thats certainly the case with our ever expanding understanding of islamic art — the speciality of an extraordinary and recently reva...

Ancient civilizations like Egypt and Greece used water clocks and sundials for timekeeping, adapting to natural variations in daylight.

Socrates Sculpture Park isn’t like any other arts institution in New York City. It has an ad-hoc, relaxed humanism that contrasts sharply with the crisp white galleries and grand museums across the river. It feels like a laboratory for art—a place where creation is as important, if not more important, than presentation.

Outdoor art offers us something special, proving how inspiring sculpture can be when shown outside gallery walls. Here are five to visit this summer.

At the end of April, the gallery Nunu Fine Art opened in New York City with works by the Cuban multi-media artist duo Ariamna Contino & Alex Hernández Dueñas about glacier retreat and sea level rise, the collection of climate data by researchers and its marginalization by political forces, and therefore the necessity for an environmental ethics driven by cultural effort.

The official start of summer is a few weeks away, but June is bringing warm weather and new sights, sounds, tastes, and more to Socrates Sculpture Park. Our new exhibition 'Mary Mattingly: Ebb of a Spring Tide' is open! Experience the Water Clock, a 65-foot living sculpture pulsing East River water throughout its mixed-media structure.

a href= http://socratessculpturepark.org target= _blank Socrates Sculpture Park /a presents New York-based artist Mary Mattingly: Ebb of a Spring

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The outdoors (street fair, remembrance, nature walk, history stroll) are big in Queens this week. So are the arts (opening, crawl, mashup). But then again, there’s also a lot of music (orchestra, symphony, ensemble, quintet, oratorio). May 19, En Vogue, 8 pm. A performance by an all-female R&B group which has sold more than 20