Art
Art Rx
This week, the Chelsea Art Walk, London street photography, and the last chance to see James Rosenquist's "F-111" and Christian Marclay's "The Clock."
Jillian Steinhauer
News
NYPD Can't Take Criticism, Censors Legal Mural
Proving that art does still have the power to be controversial, and that the New York Police Department pretty much does whatever it wants, the NYPD dispatched two officers on Tuesday to paint over a mural that it didn't like.
Opinion
Hipsters at the Louvre and Illuminated Hollywood Films
The Behance Network is hosting two projects that blend classical and contemporary in clever, playful ways.
News
Painter Denyse Thomasos, 47, Dies Unexpectedly
Artist Denyse Thomasos, whose semi-abstract paintings evoke an architecture of floating cities, died suddenly yesterday. The cause was an allergic reaction during a diagnostic medical procedure.
Art
Art Rx
This week, queer cinema, posthumanism in the West Village, bulletin board art and a pop-up art bookstore.
Opinion
Why Going Viral Isn't Always a Good Thing
I love the internet. It's jumbled and weird and mind-numbingly vast. It's also the source of my employment. (Thanks, internet!) But I'm also worried about the internet — specifically the internet and art.
News
LA's MOCA Loses the Last of Its Artist Trustees
Artist Ed Ruscha has left the board of LA's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), following the departures last week of John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger and Catherine Opie. The last artist on the board has left the building.
News
No Room for Old Masters in Berlin
Berlin wants to move a trove of Old Masters paintings to make way for a collection of surrealist art. Jeffrey Hamburger has started a petition in protest.
News
Comics Museum Closes Its Doors (But Will Return)
This week, a lesser-known MoCCA — not LA MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) or New York's MOCA, aka the Museum of Chinese in America — abruptly closed its doors. MoCCA stands for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, which until Monday was housed in suite 401 at 594 Broadway, in Nolita.
Art
Art Rx
This week, use your brain, a small dose of Bushwick, plus alternative art and dance in uptown Manhattan.
News
Calling All Foreign-Born Digital Artists
Win an exhibition on the Vilcek Foundation's digital art space and $5,000!
News
South Carolina Arts Commission Facing Hatchet
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley eliminated the entire budget of her state's Arts Commission in a late-night veto last week. The drastic cut involves two line vetoes out of 81 that Haley delivered on the 2012–13 state budget — one blocking the Arts Commission's $1.9 million in state funding (veto