Announcement
Editions/Artists' Books Fair Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
Editions/Artists’ Books Fair (E/AB Fair) is pleased to announce its 20th edition running from Thursday, October 25 – Sunday, October 28, 2018 at The Tunnel in New York City.
Latest
Art
Animation’s Artful Experiments, from Surrealism to Oil Painting Aesthetics
The Animation is Film Festival in Hollywood showcases what's exciting about the medium.
Art
When Artists Are Tamed by the Institutions that Exhibit Them
What is at stake in using Joseph Beuys's theory of "social sculpture" to recast the mission of the curator and the arts institution to take on the role of the artist?
Interview
“Female Pain Is Fetishized But Never Vindicated”: An Artist Probes the Politics of Women's Bodies
Izdihar Afyouni investigates the ethical and psychological implications of racial and genetic profiling by subverting the process of accumulating race-differentiated data.
Opinion
New Video Indicates Banksy's Sotheby's Shredding Didn't Go According to Plan
Banksy II: Electric Boogaloo: "In rehearsals it worked every time."
Art
How Nuclear Testing Transformed the Land in Nevada and New Mexico
Artists document, imagine, and investigate how the testing sites of Nevada and New Mexico scar our soil and harass romantic images of the American West.
Community
A View from the Easel
This week, artist studios in California, Massachusetts, and New York.
In Brief
Doctors in Quebec Will Soon Prescribe Museum Visits as Medicine
The pilot program employs art to relieve a variety of physical and mental illnesses.
Announcement
Provocations: Rashid Johnson and Hedges, Edges, Dirt Explore Nativism, and Expressions of Power
Two new exhibitions now open at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, VA.
Books
Inspired by the Story of a Women’s Sanitarium, a Book Explores Mental Health as a Feminist Issue
The personal essays in this luminous anthology, published by Which Witch LA, pair the interiors of the sanitarium's rooms with the inner lives of women.
Art
A New Book on Agnes Martin Reveals Her Previously Unknown Philanthropy
After making millions off her paintings, abstract expressionist Agnes Martin became a secret and substantial benefactor to a range of causes in New Mexico.
News
Week in Review: Vatican Vows to Find Missing Caravaggio, and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Bestows Historic Gift
Also, a Sotheby's auction is entangled in an identity theft scandal, and Larry Gagosian is sued over $13 million in unfinished Koons sculptures.