The Bowdoin College Museum of Art's Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Global Contemporary Art scrutinizes the critical and creative functions of language since the 1980s. Turn of Phrase ...

“Pop/Pistol,” by Whitfield Lovell, oil on wood. Exhibits that combine drawing and language are always in danger of remaining stuck at the terminology phase: What constitutes a drawing? What is ...

About 100 years ago a philosopher named Ludwig Wittgenstein noodled the idea of a private language for each individual person, but surmised that only its creator would be able to understand it. He ...

The Edmonds Arts Festival will add the art of language at this year’s three-day event that begins Friday. The 62-year-old festival is known for promoting a wide range of artwork from artists near and ...

Art is a universal language of the soul. Life without art is unimaginable. Indulging in the arts is my play way, and a key to self-soothe, meditate, and receive reliable guidance. I prefer spontaneity ...

Imagine you’re a tourist from Spain, a recent arrival from Venezuela or maybe the Chicago-born child of an immigrant. You’re stumbling into the Museum of Contemporary Art for the first time, and to ...

Gisela McDaniel grew up in predominantly white spaces: She was born on a military base in Bellevue, Neb., to a Chamorro mother who was a sociology professor teaching race and ethnicity and a white ...

Pedestrians who happen by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York after dark, now through Dec. 31, get a treat: The Frank Lloyd Wright building at 89th Street and Fifth Avenue forms the screen ...