News
If you needed another clue that the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, the short, looping digital animation file, has become totally ubiquitous, the Oxford Dictionary has selected the term as its word of the year.
Opinion
Roger Alsing's project "Genetic Programming: Mona Lisa" shows simple, transparent polygons gradually evolving into one of the more subtle and intricate compositions in art history: the Mona Lisa's face.
Art
In a side gallery off the Guggenheim’s main spiral, it looks like a tide of water came and went, leaving behind piles of bricks, wood, and detritus ripped from their original contexts and tossed into disarray. It’s not unlike certain parts of the New York City area, post-Sandy. The difference is tha
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News
The Pretoria Art Museum in South Africa was just the victim of a terrible robbery — but the thieves weren't quite smart enough to take full advantage of their haul. They stole $2 million in art, but the most significant piece was left behind because it didn't fit in their car.
Art
Brooklyn has become a global byword for cool — every city is said to have its own "Brooklyn" district as a home for artistic creativity. But what cities do we actually have anything in common with? As it turns out, our hip neighbor to the north, Montreal.
Opinion
Inveterate surrealist and playwright, artist, and writer polymath Jean Cocteau said that his first film, The Blood of a Poet (1929), wasn't a work of surrealism — he wanted to "avoid the deliberate manifestations of the unconscious." But, I have to say, it's pretty surreal.
Opinion
Remember that infamous "make a cruel and offensive offer" email from Gagosian gallery Los Angeles director Deborah McLeod? She suggested that to a potential buyer for a 1964 Roy Lichtenstein painting, "Girl in Mirror," since the seller was in "terrible straits." Well, that seller is pretty angry at
Announcement
Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco is a master of the appropriated object — throughout his career, he has turned mundane objects like pool tables, soccer balls, and yellow scooters into extraordinary sculptures. On Tuesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm, he's speaking with legendary art critic Benjamin Buchloh
Interview
Sometimes art events bloom in the places you least expect it. Resonate, a new media and technology art festival in Belgrade, Serbia, hits its second outing in 2013, and along with a new website and fresh ventures, it's looking to be a consistently powerful presence. I interviewed creative director F
Opinion
The BMW Guggenheim Lab, that UFO of urban experimentation that took up residence in New York City and Berlin, has just published a helpful guide to the most recent trends in city activity. Here are some of the major trends contained therein.
Opinion
After what had been seen as a tight race, nail-biting election returns, and an interminable wait period for Mitt Romney to actually concede (and for Barack Obama to come out and give a victory speech), we finally have a confirmed president for the next four years. Here's what Obama's win looked like
Art
Sandy can't stop the election! If you haven't voted yet, you still have a few hours left before the deadline hits, and then it'll be time for the next democratic sport — waiting for the results. Here are a few ways to experience the returns in an art-friendly way.