Opinion
In an influential special issue of Scientific American appearing in 1991, the computer scientist Mark Weiser wrote of the challenges in integrating computers to “the natural human environment” such that they “vanish into the background.” Though not quite a theory of user interface design, Weiser’s n
Opinion
In an interview appearing in the current issue of Foreign Policy and posted to the publication's website on Monday, Frank Gehry admitted that he was "reluctant" to participate in the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project, citing the distance and the fact that the "cultural issues seemed so different."
News
Americans for the Arts, an arts advocacy nonprofit, announced last night that they have succeeded in securing the inclusion of the Arts Require Timely Service (ARTS) Act in the Obama-endorsed immigration bill now expected to pass the Senate.
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I was walking around the East Village this morning, as is my wont, and happened upon a familiar face. The kindly visage in question belonged to not-quite-mediagenic Jamshed Bharucha, president of Cooper Union, "the embattled New York college" (Art in America).
Art
Like any other merchant dealing in mercurial consumer tastes and dead trees, art book publishers occasionally find their supply outpacing demand, and the usual response involves lurid discounts. Phaidon is in the middle of one such purge.
Art
During a particularly arduous training climb on California's Mt. Baldy, Los Angeles–based creative director and photographer Michael Gabel had an epiphany about the link between an image and the altitude at which it was taken. "I was set on 6,000 vertical feet in six miles and something clicked abou
Art
If David Ogilvy was the “father of advertising,” Andy Warhol, with his prolific manipulation of pop culture’s visual lexicon, was surely its eccentric uncle. The chaotic universe conjured by the pop artist belonged to everyone and no one, an endless masquerade of identifiable forms drawn up from the
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To say it's been a bad year for secular culture in Egypt is a special kind of understatement, but a string of developments this month — all linked to President Mohamed Morsi's appointments of several key positions in tourism and culture — have left observers reeling and provoked a series of bold dir
Opinion
Over the weekend, a group of 100 or so activists protesting Tadashi Kawamata and Christophe Scheidegger's "Favela Café” were teargassed at Art Basel. The café, in attempting to mimic the desperate conditions of Brazil's tragic slums, meant to bring introspection and perspective to Art Basel's air of
Opinion
On the second track of David Byrne's last album with the Talking Heads, he told the story of Mr. Jones, a pyrotechnic jack-of-all trades, "everybody's friend," straddling the creative universe of "rock stars" and the hum-drum of "conventioneers." But when Byrne took to the stage last week, all wire-
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Arlene’s Grocery, the popular Lower East Side bar, gallery space, and concert venue, has taken down a show featuring the work of Robert Preston, arguing that the artist's work was too "aggressive" and "literal" for their venue. Preston's pieces, all paintings from his Seven Deadly Sins series, were
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Rapper/self-awareness wormhole Kanye West gave an interview to Jon Caramanica in yesterday's New York Times, a dialogue on West's new album that devolved into the artist detailing his increasingly insane (or polymathic) credentials as a "creative professional."