Traveling back and forth between the University of Georgia and the California Institute of the Arts, conceptual artist Mel Chin looked out of his airplane window at the City of Angels below and ...

Mel Chin sat in the center of a room in the New Orleans Museum of Art pasted floor to ceiling with 542 surrealist scenes he'd arranged from Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia. Finishing up an interview ...

JG After Donald Rumsfeld’s “go to war with the Army you have” comments, Mel Chin wrote a song from the perspective of a soldier. “War never ends in my head/War never ends in my head/You sent me, sir/I ...

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Picturing The Big Ditch : American Images of the Panama Canal in Context / Jonathan Stuhlman, Ph.D. -- Two Commissions : The Fever Dreams of William Crawford Gorgas / Anthony Doerr -- An Interview ...

A history of land art in eight works. By Julia Halperin Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City. A mega-show of ...

“He's here.” Mel Chin reflects on the impact of the boundary-breaking artist Marcel Duchamp. Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas and is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including ...

Voices Breaking Boundaries will honor artist Mel Chin with its 2007 Biennial Valiente (Courage) Award. Chin, who was born in Houston in 1950, has made a powerful mark internationally with work that ...

Photo courtesy of the New Orleans Museum of Art. "Operation of the Sun through the Cult of the Hand" by Mel Chin. The Mel Chin exhibit opens this weekend at NOMA, and it's the first retrospective of ...

The MacArthur Foundation invited 29 of its genius grantees to showcase work exploring issues of environmental racism. Here are the 5 designers and artists who just won MacArthur Genius Grants From ...

Mel Chin is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ...