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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...