Opinion
Pantone's Color of the Year 2013 is… emerald! The company's famed color consultants have come up with the single hue that will define our coming year, and it's a deep, elegant version of green.
Opinion
A new issue of Forbes magazine comes with a cover story on David Karp, the founder of the social media behemoth Tumblr. The profile, included as part of the magazine's 30 Under 30 list of "prodigies" (Karp is 26) is titled, "Tumblr: David Karp's $800 Million Art Project." What do they mean by that,
Art
With a brand new year comes a slew of new museum exhibitions to look forward to. From retrospectives of major artists like Claes Oldenburg and James Turrell to an exploration of New York City art during one year in the 1990s, here's a look at what to expect from NYC's art museums in 2013.
Opinion
As the New York Times convenes a debate over the possibility of an art market bubble in a letter to the editor, the news arrives that international art sales reached a grand total of $64 billion over the past year, reports Artlyst.
News
In Chinese, there's a contemporary slang term, shanzhai, which refers to imitated or pirated brands or goods like fake purses and DVDs (or even books) that are a little too cheap to be real. Shanzhai culture has gone one step farther with a copy version of architect Zaha Hadid's curvaceous new comme
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In Chinese, there's a contemporary slang term, shanzhai, which refers to imitated or pirated brands or goods like fake purses and DVDs (or even books) that are a little too cheap to be real. Shanzhai culture has gone one step farther with a copy version of architect Zaha Hadid's curvaceous new comme
Opinion
Remember that subway poster that compared Muslims to savages and called for supporting Israel in order to "defeat Jihad"? The group behind that sloganeering, the American Defense Freedom Initiative (AFDI), is back with a second, even more inflammatory ad that the MTA is explicitly disavowing.
News
The damage Hurricane Sandy did to the art world may have been submerged during the holidays, but if there was any single statement to remind us of the disaster, it's this: a Reuters report noting that losses from the storm may reach $500 million.
Art
2012 was a great year for digital art. As Tumblr rocketed over 25 million hits a month and Instagram became a new venue for creative expression, artists continued to traverse the internet's sprawling landscape and confront us with the weirdness of our own experiences of virtual space. In this end-of
Opinion
Afghan designer Massoud Hassani has created an elegant, efficient solution for a horrific, violent problem: His Mine Kafon is a wind-powered device made from plastic and bamboo that triggers land mines without hurting civilians.
Art
What significance does a single image have in visual culture? The postcard, that old redoubt of tourists in need of a (semi-ironic) memento to send back home, doesn't play such an active role in our contemporary aesthetics, but it once did.
Art
It's a funny thing to see one of the heroes of modern art at work. Viewing Matisse: In Search of True Painting at the Metropolitan Museum is kind of like watching a YouTube video of Pablo Picasso painting. The artistic act is present and impressive — you are seeing a great painter create great art i