The grandfather figure of California conceptual art recently turned up in a Springfield art gallery for a cameo on the beloved cartoon.
April 2018
Posted inNews
314 Rare Books Stolen from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library
There are generally two types of rare book thieves — ones that steal for money and book hoarders.
Posted inComics
When Your Friend Becomes a Famous Artist
It’s important to keep some perspective when your friends’ careers take off.
Posted inNews
Obama Portraits Bring Record Traffic to National Portrait Gallery
On March 24 alone, the day of the March For Our Lives, 35,968 people visited the museum.
Posted inArt
Howardena Pindell Gets Her First Major Museum Survey
A survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago illustrates how the artist shifted from formalist painting to personal, political art.
Posted inArt
Required Reading
This week, reviewing Art in the Age of the Internet, Colonial Californiano architecture, the boy in Diane Arbus’s “Child With A Toy Hand Grenade” photograph, the winners of Smithsonian’s photo contest, and more.
Posted inMusic
Four Bands on Sex, Politics, and the Weather
New albums by Rhye, Physically Sick, Toni Braxton, and Johnny Jewel share a warped relationship to their ostensible themes.
Posted inArt
Sean Sullivan’s Recordings of Sounds and Colors
Inspired by Dada, Sullivan has transformed its dark, destructive impulses into something else.
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Steve DiBenedetto’s Playground of Paint
DiBenedetto is exploring a realm where figuration and abstraction have collapsed, and the body and the paint are inseparable.
