Opinion
The Death of the Art School
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
Hakan Topal is a Turkish-born artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He was the co-founder of international art collective xurban_collective (2000-12) and is an associate professor of new media and art+design at Purchase College, State University of New York.
Opinion
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
Art
The 15th edition of the international art exhibition is a gathering of potentialities, a careful alignment of militant particles, and an assembly of thousands of diverse voices.
Art
The new generation of artists and curators is eager to explore alternative organizations and to tackle current social inequalities and issues.
Opinion
I recently visited the Hagia Sophia for the first time after its conversion and felt overwhelming sadness.
Art
It's time to conceive of museums as social, educational centers with libraries, classrooms, gathering spaces where everyone — especially young people — love to hang out.
Art
When violence is celebrated, evil consumes good and insurgency turns into a kind of distortion of civilization. We have to find a way to break this vicious cycle.
Art
Elon F. Joseph, a kind, caring and a genuinely good person, passed away.