Books
At the raucous Insanitarium with Blowhole Theater, part of early 20th-century Coney Island’s Pavilion of Fun, clowns and dwarfs poked patrons with cattle prods, pushing women over jets of hot air so their skirts blew upward as onlookers gawked.
Art
LONDON — “Colorists are epic poets,” said Charles Baudelaire, and here at the Serpentine Gallery we have both: a painter of abstract landscapes and a poet, not to mention activist, scribe, and filmmaker.
News
Last Friday, Tim Mentz, Sr., former Standing Rock Sioux tribal historic preservation officer, filed a declaration with the US district court detailing archaeological sites, including graves, alongside the planned pathway of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Announcement
Work by nine internationally renowned artists who use the urban landscape as inspiration will be on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art in the multi-media group show Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source, opening September 11, 2016.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6Nzc3NzAsImF0IjoyMC
Film
David Daniels’s animation is explosive.
Comics
"You're so talented, I bet you'll become famous posthumously."
News
Bloomington, IN. — If you live in Indianapolis and have a family, you’re probably familiar with Holliday Park, located among the elaborate homes of a wealthy north side neighborhood of the city.
Art
LONDON — Frenetic spirals of color and swirling sinuous lines characterize the disembodied ink and watercolor works by Georgiana Houghton, currently on show at the Courtauld Gallery.
Art
In 1911, photographer Burton Welles published Fifth Avenue, New York, from Start to Finish.
News
Home to drawings, textiles, jewelry, furniture, and thousands of other design objects, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is taking increased advantage of the internet's digital real estate.
News
An artist residency hosted on a freighter crossing the Pacific Ocean has turned into a bizarre existential art piece in itself.
News
A 60-foot-long mural by street artist Kenny Scharf has been stolen from the East River Esplanade in Harlem for the second time — but at least this time the heist was captured on camera.