Art
Everyone loves songs and singing, right? Especially during the holidays? Well, with this video conceptual artist John Baldessari sings his own carol, putting Sol Lewitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art to your favorite well-known tunes.
News
Warhol Foundation wants Wojnarowicz brought back to Hide/Seek … Smithsonian says no … Catholics for Choice weigh in …
Opinion
If you haven't been living under a rock or in a place without wi-fi for the past two weeks, you know that the proverbial shit has hit the proverbial fan in the art world. From cases of censorship to the forced alteration of several exhibitions, it's definitely been a good month for news, if not for
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You've heard of the White Cube. No, not that London gallery, the idea: that art thrives best in a blank white box, removed from any context and given its own domain of pure space to dominate as the work and the artist see fit. Well, Sperone Westwater's new gallery space on the Lower East Side, an at
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The Smithsonian's decision to remove David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” video from its Hide/Seek exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is already made and done. The piece is gone, but it has popped up in a number of other locations, including a display at the New Museum and Transformer G
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In advance of the awarding of the Nobel Prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese government severely restricted travel for a group of liberal intellectuals who they fear may have attempted to attend the ceremony. Ai Weiwei was among those banned, though the artist recentl
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At James Fuentes LLC, a gallery on the Lower East Side, a four-artist exhibition pays testament to the influence of minimalism on contemporary artists. Yet these homages aren't just a rehash of surface fetishist Donald Judd or the austere conceptualism of a Carl Andre brick grid. This is DIY minimal
Opinion
As the Smithsonian censorship of David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” video continues to make waves, it's important to remember that the decision was made not by National Portrait Gallery staff, but by the absentee Smithsonian secretary. A leaked memo drafted by Portrait Gallery director Martin
Opinion
We've all been curious about what David Wojnarowicz' video looks like installed in the lobby of the New Museum. Well, check it out! Click through for more photos.
Interview
When the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery announced that it would be removing “A Fire in My Belly,” a David Wojnarowicz video work, from its Hide/Seek exhibition due to Republican political pressure, the art world rushed to the work's defense. Among the first art institutions to respond to th
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Kill Screen is a highbrow magazine about video games. If this strikes some as a bit of a contradiction, I wouldn't be surprised, but it certainly makes sense to me. Being a young'en, I didn't exactly grow up during the heyday of print journalism. There were no magazines or newspapers or any kind of
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There are condos going up all over Williamsburg, facades decked out with panels of bright colors that bring to mind a sort of yuppie Piet Mondrian: sickly oranges, pea greens and off-reds, all surfaced fiberglass matte and smooth. All those bare walls seen through the under-construction picture wind