Facing perilously rising sea levels, Tuvalu and the Maldives are using their pavilions at the 2013 Venice Biennale to highlight climate change. The island nations will feature projects that both poetically and concretely address the crisis.

While best known for playing psychologist Maj. Sidney Freedman on M*A*S*H, Allan Arbus—who passed away Monday at 95—started out as a fashion photographer. A photo he took with then-wife Diane Arbus was featured in The Family of Man.

“It’s funny to think that our frozen banana based on a Robert Mapplethorpe photograph didn’t get censored, but that this cookie plate did.” That’s Leah at Oakland’s Blue Bottle Coffee recounting the time they tried to make a Richard Serra-inspired cookie plate.

If your name is a sound, what does it move like? On Saturday April 6, fourteen people gathered in the Walker’s Barnes conference room for the first of four days working on radical political theatre practices in preparation for a performance piece applying working methods of Augusto Boal to Bertolt’s Brecht’s 1929 learning play The […] If your name is a sound, what does it move like? On Saturday April 6…

What kind of state are we in when we start to think about “the state”? In a new op-ed for Creative Time Reports, Ai Weiwei writes about the current state of China: “Manipulation of the truth does not lead to a lack of truth—it’s worse than no truth.”

“What is this indescribable event in a dancer’s life (when he loves dancing) that arises, given all the shit, the terrible hours of work, the grumbling and malaise of a company, the point-of-vertigo fatigue when he one day drops it all and dances…and some internal-infernal hook holds one at a peak for those few seconds, […] “What is this indescribable event in a dancer’s life (when he loves dancing) that…

Before London-based artists Karen Mirza and Brad Butler open The Museum of Non Participation: The New Deal Thursday, they’re guest-editing Art News From Elsewhere all week. Here’s a list of their top online news sources.