People Looking at Art

Mark Blower turns his camera on the audience, exposing the intimacy of the exhibition experience

A lot of London-based photographer Mark Blower’s work centers on art; like his intimate portraits of contemporary artists, including Marina Abramovic and Grayson Perry, and his “Documentation” photos of art installations. For his latest series, “People Looking at Art,” Mark has chosen to turn his camera on the audience, rather than the artists or their works. The project portrays gallery visitors at a number of …

Robot Swarm at MoMath

A new interactive exhibition featuring friendly and colorful artificial intelligence

They might be kept under the glass floor of a boxing ring-like installation, but that doesn’t mean the robots within NYC’s National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath)’s new exhibition aren’t friendly. In fact, they seek out interactions with each other as well as the museum’s visitors, with clear intelligence and near-cheer. Two dozen robots live under the exhibit floor, glowing a variety of colors—with each color …

Maira Kalman Selects at the Cooper Hewitt

After a three-year closure, the design museum celebrates its reopening with a poetic exhibit of the writer and illustrator's favorite things

After a $91 million, three-year renovation, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is finally reopening its doors to the public today, 12 December 2014. Inside the former Fifth Avenue mansion of Andrew Carnegie, where the museum is housed, expect to encounter 10 new exhibitions that not only show off the range of the Cooper Hewitt’s collection but its new expanded spaces and technology upgrades. CH …