In Brief
In the seven years since Shepard Fairey created what might be, to date, the most iconic artwork of the century — the "Hope" poster for Barack Obama's 2008 US presidential campaign — its subject has had to make a lot of compromises and its creator has lost a lot of hope.
Opinion
Raw meat as a metaphoric vessel for sensuality and sex is nothing new.
News
On this week’s art crime blotter: German police catch up with Hitler's bronze horses, falling tourist takes Greek vase with her, and Swiss squatters brick up museum entrances.
News
Filters, those in-camera photo editing presets that turn your so-so iPhone snapshots into Cartier-Bresson-esque encapsulations of the human spirit, have a direct impact on the popularity of the images shared on social media.
News
Anecdotally, most people would probably agree that photography has changed more dramatically over the last 15 years than any other sector of visual art.
In Brief
It's been more than four years since French teacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas, after posting a link to a documentary about Gustave Courbet's "L'Origine du Monde" (1866) on Facebook, returned to the social network to find the post removed and his profile suspended.
News
Australian artist Leon Ewing has come under fire for suggesting that drugs should be given to high school students to help unlock their creative potential.
News
The ancient Roman city of Palmyra in Syria has been seized by ISIS fighters, fueling fears that its ancient artifacts and buildings could meet the same fate suffered by antiquities in Mosul, Nimrud, and Hatra.
Art
The exhibition in the back room of A.I.R. Gallery's new space in Dumbo feels like a cross between a temple and an archaeological site.
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In Brief
It's been nearly two years since Marina Abramović made her appearance at the shoot for Jay Z's "Picasso Baby" music video, but the events of that day are still fresh in her mind.
News
This evening the Brooklyn Museum revealed that Anne Pasternak will succeed Arnold Lehman as the institution's director.
In Brief
Not all surveys of public opinion about visual art are equal.