Art
The argument driving this engrossing show is that Buchanan was actually a thematically ambitious and multi-faceted artist who participated in the avant-garde movements of her day, bringing to them a distinct perspective informed by her sense of identity as black and female.
Art
The New Museum seems to have taken it upon itself to produce spectacles that are as moving as they are eye-filling. Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest is something else again.
News
After announcing the inclusion of Tamer El Said's film In the Last Days of the City in its next edition, the Cairo International Film Festival abruptly removed it from its program, allegedly for screening in too many other festivals.
In Brief
A month ago, Baldwin sued Boone, alleging that she'd sold him a copy of a painting rather than the original. Now she's filed a motion that accuses him of committing fraud.
Comics
? Paging Ad Reinhardt ?
Art
Conceived of by artist Mary Mattingly, "Swale" models what New York City might look like if food were considered not only an economic good, but a public one.
In Brief
During a visit to Moe's Tavern in a 1993 episode of The Simpsons, a character based on Yoko Ono famously ordered "a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man's hat."
Art
An American artist couple known as Wella P. and L. Pet Anderson made sketches of the dead that drew inspiration not from photographs or other visual records but from supposed communication with the departed themselves.
Art
Bródno Sculpture Park has come to be one of Europe’s most enticing and important sites of relational and social sculpture.
Art
On April 25, 1777, a Mexican woman underwent an operation to remove six tumors from her breast. She commissioned an artist to paint it.
Art
In 1860, William H. Mumler set up the first photography studio that claimed to capture the dead, and his success started a movement of spirit images.
News
If you can't say it with words, you can now say it with expressions from Old Masters paintings.