The Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris commissioned Laib to respond to Monet's popular murals as part of its celebration of the 150th anniversary of Impressionism.

The southeast wing of the Secretariat building in Yangon, Myanmar, is both decadent and crumbling. Red brick walls give way to exposed rafters whereupon pigeons and sparrows—the true tenants of

Artist brings smell, warmth and light to museums, galleries in New York and D.C.

Though trained as a doctor, Laib changed his direction after medical school and began creating his now iconic "milkstones," slabs of polished marble with a thin layer of fresh milk sitting atop thei…