Art
Smithsonian Brings Google Glass to the Museum
If you’re a simple layperson who’s not yet had the chance to experience the magic that is Google Glass, you may want to visit the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, starting this Saturday.
Jillian Steinhauer
Opinion
Actors Re-Create YouTube Comment Wars
With notable exceptions, I tend to think of most internet comment sections as a kind of hell. In that scheme, YouTube comments would comprise their own circle. But, really, why get angry or upset about YouTube comments when you could simply laugh?
Art
Fighting for the Future of St. Mark's Bookshop
“There are too many good bookstores in Brooklyn,” Bob Contant said. Contant is one of two co-owners of St. Mark’s Bookshop, the embattled last independent bookstore standing in the East Village. He was explaining to me why he wouldn’t consider a move to what’s generally deemed New York’s most litera
Art
Back When the Olympics Had Art Competitions
From 1912 to 1948, awards were given out for works of art in roughly five different categories — architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture — for artworks inspired by sport.
News
Celebrated Japanese Composer Reveals Himself as a Fake
The huge news story out of Japan today is that renowned classical music composer composer Mamoru Samuragochi is a fraud. It turns out Samuragochi, who's been hailed as a genius and, because he was deaf, a contemporary Japanese Beethoven, had been hiring someone else to write his compositions for him
News
Portugal Tries and Fails to Sell Art to Help Pay Debts
Can and should a government sell art to help pay off its debts? That's been the question driving ongoing discussions about Detroit, but it's also being raised across the Atlantic, where 85 works by Joan Miró were withdrawn from a Christie's auction this week.
Art
Uncovering the Feminine Grotesque
Jessica Stoller’s porcelain sculptures are a cornucopia of crassness. Allison Schulnik's figures embody a kind of sinister, purposeful messiness.
Opinion
Against Celebrity, In Defense of New York
Moby and David Byrne are just wrong. New York may be many things to many people, but it is most certainly creative.
News
UK Arts Workers Underpaid, but Satisfied
An organization called ArtsHub has conducted an arts jobs survey in the UK, and the results make clear just how difficult and unsustainable it is to work in the arts.
News
Are Art Professionals Afraid of Fair Use?
Visual art professionals are not making use of fair use, a new report issued by the College Art Association (CAA) says, in large part because they're concerned about the repercussions of not obtaining copyright permissions.
Opinion
Museum Digitizes Entire Nazi "Degenerate Art" Inventory
The Victoria and Albert Museum published a remarkable document online today: the Nazis' inventory of "degenerate art" (entartete Kunst).
News
Parents of the Judd-Climbing Kid Speak
Remember the kid who climbed on the Donald Judd sculpture at the Tate Modern? Well, her parents have taken to the London Evening Standard to set the record straight. They want the world to know that their daughter, Sissi Belle, was only on the sculpture for a matter of seconds and meant no harm — an