News
At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' new Wing of the Americas, the story of American art is told over the course of four floors, ranging from colonial and indigenous art through modernism. Stopping before contemporary, the third floor above ground level is the home of American modernism. The opening g
Opinion
As far as the year in social media goes, Twitter is far and away my choice for a handy source of updates, information and air-testing inside the art world or out. Pretty much anything that you want to know about gets broadcast into your Twitter stream with a good enough group of follows. To the end
Opinion
Critic, writer and independent game developer Ian Bogost has created a suite of four games entitled “A Slow Year.” Comprised of a set piece about each of the four seasons, Bogost has made video games into meditations, interactive haiku meant to slow down the player instead of them speed up. Kotaku [
Art
We're approaching a pivotal point in the progress of performance art in which the once rogue medium is becoming canonized, institutionalized and historicized. If the epic Marina Abramović retrospective at MoMA, The Artist is Present, wasn't enough to convince you that the early group of performance
News
In an email posted on Newsgrist, artist AA Bronson, who asked that his portrait of Felix Partz be removed from the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek exhibition following the censorship, suggests to director Martin Sullivan that his piece be removed to make room for the Wojnarowicz video.
Opinion
The Little Artists, now known as Cake & Neave, turn iconic works of art into tiny lego sculptures. In one series, the duo create artist portraits like this one of Jeff Koons, featured with his (basket)balls. This isn't the Made in Heaven series, people!
Opinion
If it looks like lighting, smells like lighting and lights things up, it's probably lighting! At least so says the European Commission in an argument over whether or not the work of Dan Flavin and Bill Viola qualify as art. They don't think so, and express their criticisms in a series of hilarious q
Opinion
The scandal that erupted when the Smithsonian's secretary G. Wayne Clough decided to remove David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” from the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek exhibition under Republican political pressure shows no sign of calming down. Only in the past week, the Warhol Foundati
News
At a conversation held with Hide/Seek curators Jonathan Katz and David C. Ward at the New York Public Library December 15th, a few things became clear about the censorship scandal: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery director Martin Sullivan is far from repentant over the decision, and the Catholi
News
In a protest that has become practice in China, Karen Patterson is starting a movement to flood imprisoned Chinese artist Wu Yuren (AKA “Little Ai”) with Christmas cards as a gesture of support. The artist has been imprisoned for his participation in a protest against studio demolitions since May 31
Books
In Chris O. Cook's first book, called To Lose & To Pretend [http://www.brooklynartspress.com/Chris-Cook.html], published by Williamsburg's own Brooklyn Arts Press, the poet creates a collection of poems that are perfectly suited for subway rides. The brief passages are at times funny, at times ambiv
Art
Filling an entire gallery with the repeated face of Osama Bin Laden might sound like a bit of Warholian task for an artist interested in interrogating politics: an international criminal turned celebrity. But James Esber's exhibition You, Me and Everybody Else at Pierogi in Williamsburg actually aim