Art
In the 1960s, while the United States and the Soviet Union were playing out their battle of who would make it to the moon first and so dominate the galactic skies, a former high school teacher in Zambia decided his country needed a space program.
Opinion
If real-life Jane Does and Joe Schmoes have been known to discover valuable paintings at flea markets, why not Marge and Homer Simpson?
News
The fight to obtain resale royalties for visual artists may be gaining momentum thanks to the newly introduced American Royalties, Too (ART) Act of 2014, but the major auction houses are determined to stop it.
News
City Councilmembers in Atlanta are proposing an ordinance that would require anyone wishing to display "public art" on their private property to obtain a labyrinthine string of permits and approvals, Creative Loafing has reported.
Opinion
At Planet Money, Quoctrung Bui has compiled data to take a cursory look at the question: "What's the link between household income during childhood and job choice during adulthood?"
News
The question of who, exactly, is an artist — what that word means, who defines herself by it — has always been a tricky one. All sorts of surveys define "artist" in their own way and then move on with results, but a new study in the journal Poetics takes up the root question itself.
Opinion
It's one thing for people to take selfies with works of art; it's another to climb on the art in order to get a photo and break it in the process.
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Opinion
Yesterday over email, Performa publicized a call they'd announced a few weeks earlier, seeking writers-in-residence for 2014. The catch? The positions are unpaid.
News
Last summer, we made the analogy that selling Detroit Institute of Arts masterpieces would be like asking Greece to sell the Parthenon to help cover its debt. Thankfully that hasn't come to pass, but a couple of buildings considered "architectural gems" have been put on the privatization list, the G
Art
The problem of Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective is that its current showing, at the Jewish Museum in New York, is its only stop in the United States.
Opinion
The appointment raises questions about the way museums treat black artists and their work, which in turn expose the complications of turning a race into an artistic category.
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News
The Midtown Manhattan museum of the International Center of Photography (ICP) will close in January 2015, Artnet News has reported. That's when the organization's lease, with landlord the Durst Organization, expires, and a new one has not been negotiated.