An unusual sacred space, the somber, timber, clad cylinder of Black Chapel rises from the lawn of Kensington gardens. Hollow and imposingly tall, draped in a barrel-shaped surface of burnt-shaded wood, the structure represents this year’s Serpentine Pavilion and 21st edition, contrived by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates…

Can hear the artist Rafael Y. Herman fiddling with his stove all the way in Paris. “I’m making coffee,” he explains. We start talking cafes, and suddenly I’m transported back to a place on the lip of the river Seine where I sat out a particularly bruising, Parisian winter.

SCAD President Paula Wallace, Jeremy Irons, and SCAD students at SCAD Lacoste Film Festival, courtesy of SCAD. In resplendent Provence, nestled in the luminous hillside of the Luberon valley, lies a small medieval town once home to the revolutionary Marquis de Sade. Bathed in sunlight, the pastoral setting can be found across an array of…

This spring the artist Rafael Y. Herman laid out an interactive display of ethereal photographs, draped under 17th-century fresco ceilings in Palermo’s Palazzo Sant’Elia, opening a dialogue with the audience on the nature of light and dark. Entitled “ESSE” and on view through June 22, it consists of 16 monumental works, spread out over 1,000 square meters of juxtaposing…