News
With news of 3rd Ward's unexpected closure reported earlier this afternoon in the New York Observer, further details have emerged regarding the operational and strategic difficulties that have plagued the widely-utilized creative depot cum instruction space for the past year.
Opinion
Statues: like many things that exist in the world, people sometimes have idiotic opinions about them. Mute and immobile, they are the helpless victims of sad little moralists of all stripes, from Kansas to Qatar.
News
Hysterical reactions to "controversial" installations are a fixture of public art, but an ongoing saga in Kansas over a topless and headless female statue elevates the form to an obscene theatrics.
Opinion
Dan Loeb, an activist investor and erstwhile Jeff Koons egg-haver, today fired off an apoplectic screed to Sotheby's on behalf of Third Point LLC, his $14 billion hedge fund.
News
The new day brought with it a second Banksy, but now the amusing audio guide hotline appears to be down, and overnight the first piece went through a graffiti metamorphosis of its own.
News
Celebrated career criminal Banksy has apparently begun a monthlong residency in New York City as part of an exhibition his website is calling Better Out Than In, "an entire show on the streets of New York."
Opinion
Horse_ebooks, that paragon of Twitter non sequitur humor, has turned out to be the "conceptual art" handiwork of Jacob Bakkila, a Buzzfeed "creative strategist," and Thomas Bender.
News
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has offered an $18 admission voucher on the social deals site Groupon, a seeming continuation of their longstanding tendency to mislead New Yorkers about the official "price" of admission.
Music
There is nothing like the ethereal monotonal droning of bow on string to amplify the dismal cacophony of human tics, our collective bodily disquiet.
Art
Like the episodic Richard Brautigan novel from which the show draws its name, Franklin Street Works' Kool-Aid Wino is a playful yet sincere riff on the slapdash, crooked, and obscure virtue of errors.
Interview
Hyperallergic speaks with UNICEF Jordan's Deputy Representative Michele Servadei to delve into the question of child programming at Za'atari, both in the arts and education more generally. Accompanying her answers below are photographs of artworks produced by Syrian children aged 12-18 at the camp,
Art
The second annual Asian Contemporary Art Week will descend upon the San Francisco Bay Area tomorrow with myriad scheduled events highlighting art practices engaged with Asian social and political issues.