Art
Adam Simon’s Deadeye Realism
As is often the case with Simon’s work, the logo paintings require a period of conceptual catch-up before they can be seen as what they are, rather than as what they seem.
Latest
News
UC San Diego Plans to Convert Art Gallery into Classrooms, Sparking Protests
The University of California, San Diego's University Art Gallery is celebrating its 50th anniversary, but this may also prove to be its last year.
Art
Solve a Murder Mystery in a German Rapper's Interactive Music Video
In German rapper Kontra K’s interactive video for "Next to You," off the new album Labyrinth, a fisherman discovers a crime scene at a quiet lake house.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Qatar's royal family settled a legal dispute with Larry Gagosian over a Picasso sculpture, Rome put out an emergency call to corporations and philanthropists for €500 million to preserve its landmarks, and street artist JR made the Louvre's glass pyramid "disappear."
Art
Dangerous Bodies on the Verge of Breaking Down
The Performance Anxiety series, curated by Ventiko, stages a monthly performance buffet on the Lower East Side.
Art
A Native American Artist Who Painted Pop and Challenged the Status Quo
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967–1980, currently on view at the Phoenix Art Museum, features over 40 oil paintings and prints by the Luiseño artist.
Comics
The Shocking Reveal
Hail Hydra …
Performance
Small Gestures of Humanity Amid the Ruins of Civilization
Science fiction is notoriously difficult to stage.
Books
Find Andy, the Waldo of the Art World, in 'Where's Warhol?'
Waldo, the cartoon protagonist of the famed Where’s Waldo? series, has more in common with Andy Warhol, the godfather of Pop art, than is immediately obvious.
Books
Essays that Collapse Time
Artist and writer Hannah Black’s videos — including “My Bodies,” “Intensive Care/Hot New Track,” and “The Neck” — combine images, texts, and sounds in a way that seems less about creating tension than exposing it.
Comics
The Anarchy of the Pigeon
Through the castellated gates at the Sands St. entrance to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, I marched along a line of pointing volunteers.
Art
Rescuing Roosevelt Island's Rare, Abstract WPA Murals
"When people hear the words 'WPA murals,' they envision the large and heroic figures they may have seen in post offices or other public buildings across America," said Stephanie Wiles, the director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.