Miki's mixed-media sculptures hint at a life force inside.
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The artist frequently references the tension between chaos and order in his works.
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Two major exhibitions culminate in Kathy Huang's new book highlighting groundbreaking work made by women and nonbinary artists.
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Cinematography and a sense of wonder play central roles in large-scale, enigmatic oil paintings.
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In 'Solo Pienso en Volver a Verte,' Maria A. Guzmán Capron welcomes viewers into a lush garden of care and compassion.
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"I live along the Atlantic coast, where I collect marine waste that inspires and feeds into this body of work," Brecevic says.
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Reliefs of eyes, noses, and mouths peer outward like knowledge and stories personified.
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"Yes, Barbie is a polarizing toy ... but [Greta] Gerwig leaped right to what else Barbie is: a potent, complicated, contradictory symbol that stands near the center of a decades-long and still-running argument about how to be a woman. ... The movie is a celebration of Barbie and a subterraneanapologia for Barbie." — Willa Paskin, The New York Times, 11 July 2023
Did you know?
As you might expect, apologia is a close relative of apology. Both words come from Late Latin; apologia came to English as a direct borrowing while apology traveled through Middle French. The Latin apologia can be traced back to the Greek verb apologeîsthai, meaning "to speak in defense; defend oneself." In their earliest English uses, apologia and apology meant basically the same thing: a formal defense or justification of one's actions or opinions. Nowadays, however, the two are distinct. The modern apology generally involves an admission of wrongdoing and an expression of regret for past actions, while an apologia typically focuses on explaining, justifying, or making clear the grounds for some course of action, belief, or position.