Laurie Anderson + Kronos Quartet: The Water Rises / Our Street Is a Black River

The second release from Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet’s forthcoming collaborative album Landfall, “The Water Rises / Our Street Is a Black River” is a video featuring two back-to-back tracks. The album marks a first collaboration from the two highly experimental musical acts—and the results shared here, based on Anderson’s experience of Hurricane Sandy, are dramatic, unconventional and entirely powerful.

Cancer Survivors Turn Radiation Masks To Art

According to Artsy, groups across the United States (and other nations) have taken radiation masks—mesh pieces molded to patents’ faces in advance of chemotherapy for head and neck cancer—and turned them into art. The groups are composed of artists, many of whom have survived cancer themselves. The results are striking, and carry an array of meaning: confrontation, reclamation, survival and more. In the process, awareness …

Emmanuelle Moureaux’s Rainbow-Hued “Color of Time” Exhibition in Japan

Tokyo-based artist Emmanuelle Moureaux’s latest installation uses vibrant whimsy and an overwhelming scope in an attempt to express the passing of time. The vast concept materializes through 120,000 paper numerals and symbols, layered and each sporting a color. Set in Japan’s Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, “Color of Time” splendor seems to shift as one walks through, with the spectrum passing behind. While …