The New York Public LIbrary’s latest exhibition offers food for thought.

You know Henri Rousseau’s paintings of lion attacks? He made those based on taxidermic displays. If you liked that, this is the book for you.

Brooklyn artist Shantell Martin draws on every surface she can find—including the walls of her bedroom, sweatshirts, and people’s faces.

The plague, indoor clouds, and art memes.

Berndnaut Smilde’s cloud installations consist of precise mixtures of machine-generated light, humidity, temperature, and smoke.

Discretely located on the otherwise rarely frequented Cortlandt Alley in TriBeCa, Red Bucket Films (an indie film production company) has opened the city’s smallest museum in a freight elevator. Red Bucket’s owners, Alex Kalman, Josh and Benny Safdie, creatively called this 80 square foot museum, “Museum.”

Photographer Pinar Yolaçan accessorizes the women in her portraits with raw meat and animal parts.

After you’ve hit up the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the 3,000-vendors-strong Grand Bazaar, make sure to visit these museums.

If you hated Prometheus, spend some time with the myth and its many appearances in art history!

A new generation continues a designer’s legacy for simple, sustainable ideas that serve the real needs of the people.

Even though Venus over Manhattan is in the heart of art world bustle on Madison Avenue, the gallery sits in stark contrast to the white walls of its neighbors. The space looks more like a bomb shelter than a place for exhibiting art, which is exaggerated by the fact that its inaugural show, À Rebours (Against Nature), takes place in near-darkness.

Photographer James Cathcart captures the unofficial graveyards for planes and automobiles, some of which might have once been in your very own backyard.