Art
Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York is one of the most famous contemporary art institutions in the world, and yet part of that fame, lending the place a kind of quasi-notoriety, is the idea that the building itself isn't actually a great venue for showing art. Or as architecture Paul
Opinion
Let's start at the beginning. Vice magazine recently published a fashion spread from its new Women in Fiction issue. Titled "Last Words," it features seven models posed as female writers who committed suicide (or in one case, attempted to) at the moment of their deaths.
Opinion
Lady Gaga has been accused of plagiarizing from many artistic sources: Canadian-Ukranian artist Taras Polataiko, New York performance artist Colette, and Canadian artist Jana Sterbak, to name a few. But now someone's finally going the extra step and suing her.
Film
The NSA surveillance scandal has, in a short term, made a lot of people feel depressed and/or worried about the state of governance in America. This is both good and bad for Jeremy Scahill’s new documentary, Dirty Wars, which is directed by Richard Rowley and is also the title of a simultaneously re
Art
This is a week for big-name, legendary artists — but don't worry, the doctor's got alternative prescriptions, too.
Opinion
In a big victory for unpaid internship lawsuits, a federal judge ruled last Tuesday that two interns who worked on the movie Black Swan for Fox Searchlight Pictures should have been paid. Federal District Court Judge William H. Pauley III sided with the former interns, Eric Glatt and Alexander Footm
Performance
First, there was Leonardo the Musical, a mostly fictional production about Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa. Then there was the three-hour-long Starry Nights, about, yes, Vincent van Gogh. Next came Pop!, a piece of "canned camp," as the New York Times called it, focused on Andy Warhol and the Fa
News
The battle over the future of the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection is still only a theoretical one, but that hasn't stopped high-profile people throughout the state from taking sides. The latest entrant into the fray is Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, who says the art cannot be sold to
Opinion
If you were to apply the principles of quantum physics to banking, could you generate billions of dollars and fix the world's economy? That's the premise of a new project by artist Jonathon Keats called the Quantum Bank. It opened by way of a prototype quantum ATM installed at the Engineer's Office
Opinion
Here's something you may not have known: there's a massive art factory in North Korea that makes monuments, sculptures, statues museums, and more for at least a dozen countries around the world. In a fascinating story in Bloomberg Businessweek, writer Caroline Winter lays out the details — or at lea
Art
This week, the doctor prescribes lots of artist talks, a few openings, and the Museum Mile festival.
Art
Common journalistic wisdom has it that it takes three examples of a phenomenon to make a trend. 1) Kitty City, a metropolis/playground for cats that was built at Flux Factory in May and unveiled with a kitten adoption drive the first weekend in June; 2) The Cat Show, an exhibition devoted to cats, a