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Game On!, Artspace New Haven, Connecticut's citywide festival of open studios and commissioned projects will take place during weekends throughout October 7 – November 10, 2016.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTU0MTc5LCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjbSI6NDg3NjI3LCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY2siOnt9LCJjciI6MTY4OTUx
Art
PORTLAND, Oregon — Mark Rothko was born 113 years ago on September 25, 1903.
Comics
Recently, I came across an old scrap of paper smeared in ink and paint that said...
Opinion
This week, the Facebook near-billionaire secretly funding Trump’s meme machine, Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Black American history, pocket politics, and more.
Opinion
"The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand."
Books
“Information is increasing while direct contacts are in decline. Relations are becoming more numerous while their intensity and authenticity are diminishing,” wrote Henri Lefebvre in 1961, and by 1981 he understood that this would entail “a solitude all the more profound for being overwhelmed by mes
Art
Gary Petersen’s skewed geometric paintings call forth analogies to music and architecture, a realm of vertical intervals and diagonal supports spliced into a precarious balance.
Art
The Austrian painter Tillman Kaiser does something unexpected and frankly welcome. Rather than accept that painting is used up or on life support, Kaiser opens up the discourse through the use of egg tempera (a medium dating back to Egyptian mummy portraits) on photograms (a 20th-century invention)
Art
Drawings 1982-96 is a modestly titled but very revealing exhibition of drawings by Carroll Dunham, the bulk of which had been owned by Illeana Sonnabend, the artist’s New York gallerist from 1988 to 1994.
Music
Faced with the choice between genuine American pop music and the perfect facsimiles crafted by foreign scientist-geniuses running computer algorithms on said pop music (you think I’m exaggerating; read John Seabrook), I’d still pick the American stuff.
Art
As a lifelong resident of the South who often has cause to talk to people from elsewhere, I find that my accent is a recurring topic of conversation. Someone will wonder why I don’t have one, and seem astonished. Someone else will retort, “What are you talking about? He totally has one!” and seem am
Art
Fred Sandback could be considered, and not without reason, as the purest and most unsparingly geometric member of a rigorously formalist generation, a cohort that included Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Richard Serra, and Sol LeWitt.