The geometry of reconciliation: Shane Carruth (Jeff) and Amy Seimetz (Kris) embody the infinity symbol (lemniscape), a recurring motif in this luminous transcendent holistic work of art.

After garnering critical acclaim at Sundance Film Festival,

"Sometimes reality overtakes fiction," proclaimed festival director Dieter Kosslick in his 2013 address introducing the Berlinale theme of social reality in all genres.

Indeed, reality has overtaken fiction with the 63rd Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. Merging the "fight for assertion against merciless systems" with the first Weimar retrospective in...

The Grandmaster , a multilayered message of integrity of the individual who lives by a moral code integrating all opposites, is all too appropriate for the once divided city.

Berlin's...

It seems utterly remarkable, although it shouldn't be, given the global crisis of 2012.

The German artist Heide Hatry with her groundbreaking multimedia "Not a Rose: A Neo-Conceptual Art Project" on the opening day of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012.

Heide Hatry's Not a Rose: A Neo-Conceptual Art Project stunned visitors at...

Lady Gaga and her new scent, FAME, turned the tables during a night of masquerade at the Guggenheim museum in New York. While there, guests were asked to wear masks while observing the performance.

Delusions of artistic grandeur: Lady Gaga tweeted: "I've arrived...

Normandi Ellis' magnificent Imagining the World into Existence: An Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness is a breakthrough of holistic literature at this crucial time.

After re-interpreting the...

The next woman who proudly tells me that she is a conceptual artist is going to get a smack.

Conceptual art has consistently alienated the public. Moreover, women adopting a conceptual process are participating in the eradication of the pioneering feminist body experiments...

The next woman who proudly tells me that she is a conceptual artist is going to get a smack.

Conceptual art has alienated the public from art. Women buying into it for a few generations now have not only denied but eradicated the original feminist body experiments of the...

Wangechi Mutu, "Humming" (2010)

An immersion into art and nature on Museum Row in Baden Baden takes us through 20th century art history...

Henri Laurens' "La Mere" in "Fernand Leger and Henri Laurens: Tete-a-Tete" at the...

While the Cypriot monastery has...

For nearly two decades years now, TED has been perfecting its formula as a global...

"The egg of the philosophers, the ovum philosophorum refers to the vessel in which the creation process takes place. Many creation myths begin with an egg that divides and constructs the world, for example, part of the shell becoming the sky ... the egg gives birth as a universal parent...

The star clouds that form the Milky Way were seen as the tree of life where all life came from... Every winter solstice when the earth made its way around the sun it appeared to move against the background stars... the sun conjoined the crossing point of Milky Way where...

It takes nerve to name your rock n' roll band THE ART and then select an infamous prankster's riff on Andy Warhol's death mask for the cover of your provocative premiere album: THE ART: Here Comes the War.

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Last week, President Barack Obama declared he was left at the altar by Speaker John Boehner....

"Suitcase" 1964, Boris Lurie, Courtesy of the Boris Lurie Foundation

Only if it had arrived in a suitcase could the entrance of renegade Boris Lurie and his NO!art movement into a museum have been more fitting.

Tucked away into a back...

Who is Mary Magdalene really?

We know she was involved with Jesus...but how?

As his disciple?

Spiritual companion?

Or perhaps his wife?