Art

Mocking Materialism with Collage

In his exhibition at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, David Shrobe uses the nonsensical and irrational as tonics for the relentless instrumentalization of what we purchase and consume.

Opinion

How to Draw a (Picket) Line: Activists Protest Event at Boyle Heights Gallery

A meeting of the Artists' Political Action Network failed to take into account its location in a neighborhood that's been mired in gentrification controversy for quite some time.

Art

Tribute to Palmyra Is the Getty's First-Ever Online Exhibition

Gathering a wealth of historical photographs, prints, and writing, the Getty offers the public a look at the legacy and allure of Palmyra.

News

Controversial Assassination Picture Wins 2017 World Press Photo Award [UPDATED]

This year's World Press Photo winners were selected from 80,408 images submitted by 5,034 photographers from 125 countries

Art

Gavin Turk's Outdated Provocations

An exhibition of Turk's works in the London museum of fellow Young British Artist Damien Hirst fails to make a case for the longevity of his art historical in-jokes.

Art

Fred Wilson Teaches Us How to Pay Attention

In the artist's intervention at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum, white and black bodies suggest a deeper, racialized meaning.

Art

Help Transcribe World War I Love Letters

On this Valentine's Day, Europeana is launching a crowdsourcing project to transcribe the text of digitized World War I love letters.

Art

From a Table of Phalluses to a Ménage à Trois Watercolor, Erotic Art Heads to Auction

Sotheby's first-ever auction of erotic artworks, timed to Valentine's Day, features a delightful range of objects, including a rare homoerotic painting from 18th-century Turkey.

Art

An Artist Excavates the Past Lives of a Gallery's Building

Leyla Cárdenas examines the physical and historical layers of the spaces in which she works, studying their fragments and the experiences lived therein.

In Brief

Long Attributed to a Follower, a Pieter Brueghel the Younger Painting Is Authenticated

The artist's "Wedding Dance in the Open Air" spent many years undated and unsigned in storage at the Holburne Museum.

Art

Betye and Alison Saar Talk Art at the California African American Museum

In their mother-daughter conversation, Betye and Alison Saar will talk about their art, collaborations, and shared experiences as family.

In Brief

Masked Men Destroy Exhibition at Kiev Art Space

On February 7, men wearing balaclavas stormed into the Visual Culture Research Center and destroyed an exhibition of work about the Maidan Revolution by artist Davyd Chychkan.