Opinion
Two weeks ago, when critic Ken Johnson reviewed Michelle Grabner's current solo exhibition in the New York Times, he fell into a trap. Johnson didn't like Grabner's work, which is fine, but rather than breaking it down to understand why he didn't like it, he resorted to half-baked biographical stere
Art
Here's your daily dose of gender gap reality: although more women seem to be going into architecture, parity between the sexes remains far off in the field.
Art
Everyone knows that classical sculpture is white. Think of the gleaming marble of artworks like the Belvedere Torso and "Laocoön and His Sons" — the whiteness imparts a kind of purity, a sense of being the ground zero of Western culture, the original from which an entire civilization's canon has spr
Art
There's so much good stuff happening this week, it's almost hard to keep track. Among our picks are two intriguing performances by three up-and-coming LA artists, two shows devoted to 20th-century artist pioneers, and a discussion of art and political activism. And don't forget about Halloween — we
Art
Ah, Beat Nite. A time of magical madness, when we run frantically around Bushwick for four hours, trying to see all the art.
News
Students at the California Institute of the Arts — CalArts, as it's more popularly known — are staging a walkout at 3 o'clock this afternoon in protest of the school's handling of sexual assault cases. The action, organized by a group of about 20 students, will be followed by a student-led community
Opinion
For all the studies considering how we relate to artwork and artists that are producing fascinating results, there are others that are duds.
Art
Danny Olda has commissioned six artists to make work based on texts produced by various artist statement generators.
Guide
This weekend, 302 artists and arts spaces will open their doors for Gowanus Open Studios (GOS) 2014, running 12–6pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Opinion
For better or for worse, visual art seems to be having a populist moment. On the "better" side of that situation is the fact that more people are taking the time to think about and engage with art; on the "worse" side is that for a number of those people, engaging with art means using it as a backdr
In Brief
Last month, archeologists uncovered two oversize marble caryatids and a colorful marble panel in a substantial tomb complex in Amphipolis, Greece. Now, after excavating behind the sealing wall that the caryatids were guarding, they've found a chamber with a large and largely intact mosaic floor.
News
The list of artworks that will be loaned by French museums to the Louvre Abu Dhabi has been released.