PARIS — Free-floating habits are often hard to abandon. The term “video” as a definable medium — and thus “video art” — is now essentially archaic, due to the convergence of all capture technologies ...

PHILADELPHIA — When we immerse ourselves in Bill Viola’s videos, it is as if we are dipping into a pool that brings us into other realms of consciousness, and the water is the continual flow of time.

On a stormy, steamy summer day in 2003, as I approached the Gasometer Oberhausen, which the Third Reich used for fuel storage, I expected the enormous cylindrical structure would prove the gloomiest ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Bill Viola, a video artist who combined with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and ...

The Royal Academy of Arts in London, one of the city’s most esteemed institutions, is pairing a group of exquisite late drawings by Michelangelo with—and you’re reading this correctly—videos by the ...

Pioneering video artist Bill Viola died at age 73 at his home in Long Beach, California, on Friday, July 12 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. His death was confirmed by James Cohan, the ...

A simple description of Bill Viola’s feature-length video “I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like” (1986) does not sound promising. It includes extended shots of mostly still birds, fish and buffalo. It ...

As announced on his website, artist Bill Viola passed away peacefully at home on Friday, July 12, following a long period of suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. His lengthy career was marked by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Bill Viola, whose pioneering work with video since the 1970s opened the door to what would become a major artform ...

"Bill Viola: Internal Visions," at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, showcases 16 works by one of the most prominent contemporary video artists. Mr. Viola's simple, powerful videos play in slow motion on ...

Bill Viola performing “The Talking Drum” (1979) (All photos by Kira Perov, Viola’s lifelong companion and collaborator; courtesy of Bill Viola) LONDON — I am sitting in the middle of an empty car park ...