Guide
Your Concise Guide to the 2015 Venice Biennale
This year's Venice Biennale promises to be one of the most political.
Hrag Vartanian
Art
What Is the Role of an Intellectual During a Revolution?
ISTANBUL — Last Saturday Yassin al-Haj Saleh, one of the most vocal intellectuals of the Syrian Civil War or Revolution (depending on your perspective), attended a screening of Our Terrible Country (2014) at SALT Galata.
News
Two Killed at Muhammad Art Contest in Texas, ISIS Claiming Responsibility
Last night, two men were killed and one man was injured at the American Freedom Defense Initiative's "Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest" in the Dallas/Forth Worth area.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Instagram's impact on art collecting, Chicago's missing Keith Haring, 50 buildings in 50 cities, privilege at art museums, the largest object in the universe, and more.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a quadruple rainbow, genocide at 100, remaking Mackintosh, poetry inspired by visual art, the creator of the emoticon, the first anime, and more.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, swapping a run-down house and a Henry Moore sculpture, only 18% of Artforum covers have featured art by women, the mysterious world of the "sneakernet," how Imelda Marcos bought a Goya, and more.
Opinion
Should Media Be Charged for Using Citizen News Footage?
The convention has been to let media companies, particularly television channels, use newsworthy footage without paying a fee because it's in the public interest to disseminate the images.
Interview
Why Liberate Tate Joined the #WhitneyPipeline Protests
I interviewed a member of Liberate Tate as to why the group decided to take part in the #WhitneyPipeline protests and what it has accomplished in its own struggle with the Tate.
News
Art Protest Groups Join Forces for Guerrilla Ribbon-cutting at New Whitney Museum
Last night, The Illuminator was in Manhattan's Meatpacking District to project mayday messages on the facade of the soon-to-be-opened Whitney Museum, while a group of two dozen protesters supported by 23 sponsoring organizations launched a guerrilla inauguration for the "fracked gas pipe museum."
News
Breaking Down the Demographics of the New Whitney Museum's Inaugural Exhibition
We took a look at the cultural and gender breakdowns of all the artists in the Whitney Museum's inaugural exhibition in its new building to assess how fresh these perspectives really are.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, Kehinde Wiley and DJ Spooky join forces in Brooklyn, play Game of Thrones bingo with fellow fans, watch some anarchist art, figure out where the wild books are, explore Nordic prints, and more.
In Brief
"Hologram" Protesters March Against Troubling New Anti-Terror Law
Thousands took part in a virtual march in the streets of Madrid last Friday night to protest the new Citizens’ Securities Law’s Reform law that will have a chilling effect on public protests.