Art
Art Rx
This week, lots of talks, discussions, and conversations to stimulate your intellect — plus a screening of one of the most revered films of all time, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev.
Jillian Steinhauer
Art
Who Knew George Washington Was So Artsy?
Happy Presidents' Day! Although today is the day to honor all past US presidents, there's only one whose birthday sparked the creation of the holiday in the first place: George Washington. Yes, that's right — you have George to thank for still being in your pajamas right now.
Art
On Henry Darger's 15,000-Page Novel
Although he traced and painted and wrote in obscurity until the day he died, Henry Darger is, today, probably the best-known outsider artist in the world. In the past decade or so, the small space of his one-room Chicago apartment ceded to the spacious galleries of museums and art fairs, and Henry D
News
Istanbul University Responds to Deaccession Controversy with Press Release
The latest news coming out of Istanbul in the story of the impending museum deaccession auction is that the focal point of the controversy, Istanbul Bilgi University, has issued a press release and agreed to a meeting with activists. The university administers the recently closed Santralistanbul Mus
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What's the Best Way to Show Digital Art, Both Online and Off?
What's the best way to show artwork — both made for the web and not — online? How do we bring net art into the physical space of a gallery? These are two of the questions that curators, artists, and others in the art world are increasingly confronting and most likely will be for a while. Two attempt
Art
Art Rx
The doctor has a very specific prescription for you this week: openings! And don't worry — she's got a little something for you romantics, too.
Opinion
W.A.G.E. Calls Out Documenta for Not Paying Artists
Everything sounds worse taken out of context, but a new video released by New York art activist group W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) starts with a pretty damning quote from Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the curator of art mega-exhibition Documenta (also known annoyingly as dOCUMENT
News
Artists Try to Light US Map on Fire, Burns Gallery … or Something
Today, in bizarre art news: a San Francisco gallery nearly went up in flames after an artwork that was purposefully set on fire burned a little too intensely.
Opinion
Meet Leonardo da Vinci, Action Hero
Everyone knows the artist-as-hero myth, but what about the artist as action hero? From what I can tell, that's essentially the premise of a new Starz show coming in April called Da Vinci's Demons.
News
Cooper Union Art Faculty Rejects Proposal for Tuition
It's been two months since the Cooper 11 students ended their clock tower occupation, but the battle at the Cooper Union over the question of tuition is far from over. The latest news is that the faculty of the School of Art has taken a public stand against the idea of charging tuition.
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Woman Vandalizes Iconic Delacroix Painting at the Louvre
What is it with art vandalism these days? First there was the Picasso at the Menil Collection last summer, then the Rothko at the Tate Modern. Now a woman has defaced Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" at an outpost of the Louvre. Is this some kind of weird, terrible trend?
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