Juan Cortés, “Magnetic Landscapes” (2012–2013), magnifying glass, magnets, motor, speaker, iron filings (image courtesy the artist); Installation view, Seeing Sound (2024), Samek Art Museum, Bucknell ...

“Seeing Sound” is an expansive exhibition that explores the recent trajectory of sound as a dynamic branch of contemporary art practice, curated by Barbara London—one of the world’s most influential ...

For some, abstraction might mean non-figurative painting, but today’s hottest emotive medium is so abstract it can’t be seen, touched, or felt. There’s no arguing that sound art is having a moment.

I believe a world without sound is just as bad as a world without art. Why not mix the two to make our world a better place amid the chaos of it all? Music allows humans to explore the depths of ...

The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas Austin (UT Austin) revealed earlier this week a new central feature of its ongoing, Snøhetta-led campus revamp, first announced in January. A ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. For “Air,” Audra Wolowiec mounted speakers on beams at one end of a gallery ...

Here are tips for how to sound like you understand art. Do you question your ability to talk about art in a coherent way? Here are tips for how to sound like you understand art, even if you've never ...

In case you haven’t been tracking the progress of group exhibitions of sound art, a short history would be: they are generally a disaster, with many works either impossible to hear adequately in the ...