Featured Pieces:

Holy Mole! It's Fresh Avocado [By Julia Rappaport]

IN THE HEART OF the nation's "Avocado Capital"-Valley Center, California-sit 25 acres of trees owned by the Lerner family, whose daughter, Amy, is a graduate student in Brown University's Center for Environmental Studies. (Read More)

Would Jesus Buy a Solar Panel for the Roof of his Suburban Home? [by Nathan Schneider]

THE BIBLE IS NOT A TEXT known for its concern for baby seals. Most of the time, its scenery is left to the imagination. With the exception of an occasional Lebanon cedar... (Read More)

The Devil and Damien Hirst: A Collection of Works at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts [by Doug Fretty]

A NAUSEOUS SMELL LURKS in the Boston MFA's Foster Gallery, and it emanates from a seven-foot-tall black square. Museum-goers follow their noses to the square, study it cautiously-it looks like a chunk of volcanic rock protruding from the gallery wall. (Read More)

It's About Russia: A Collection of 20th century Russian paintings, Washington, D.C. [by Hilda Hei Nam Leung]

RUSSIAN ART is more than sweaty, muscular men building power lines with victorious smiles. As an exhibition of 50 Russian paintings at the Smithsonian International Gallery in Washington, D.C. demonstrates, those socialist realism propaganda... (Read More)

Tune Falls Flat for Audio Poetry: The RISD Museum unveils two new works [by Chloe Malle]

PEOPLE SAY I WALK too fast, but I just always thought of myself as girl having somewhere to go, as a girl on a mission. It took walking through-or rather sporadically stumbling up-the aurally arresting Farago Staircase... (Read More)