Art
TEHRAN — My first impression of the Iranian capital is one of vagueness in a difficult topography, as the city sprawls in all directions and stands at different elevations surrounded by mountains.
Interview
LONDON — Whether or not they have ever been to Luton, people who know of the place feel they need little introduction.
Art
Google Cultural Institute recently revealed that it has engineered the creatively named Google Art Camera: a custom-built camera intended to capture "ultra-high resolution 'gigapixel' images" of artworks in museums around the world.
Art
SAN FRANCISCO — There’s something deliciously subversive about an old-guard, establishment art gallery mounting an adamantly low-tech, analogue art show that celebrates dysfunction, messiness, and thwarted purpose, and doing it at the vortex of an industry that fetishizes streamlined, enhanced, digi
In Brief
Brazil's interim president Michel Temer will reinstate the country's Ministry of Culture next Monday following a string of protests initiated by local artists and cultural organizations.
Art
PARIS — An uplifting yet melancholy poetry pervades Ken Matsubara’s show at Galerie Eric Mouchet, Hou-Chou, Releasing Birds, through the flickering of endlessly looped moving images that suggest shadowy ghosts.
Art
In the 1880s, William Nicholson Jennings set out to prove the diversity and unpredictability of lightning's path, capturing the electric light with his plate camera.
Art
Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture, currently at the Frick Collection, provides a window onto how the premier Baroque portrait style came together in the busy studio of a gifted, if short-lived, painter.
Hyperallergic
New York City is filled with potentially poetic moments, provided you're open to them — but sometimes it helps to be reminded.
Art
"If you want to stain me, come to 2689 Santa Fresca Blvd." So reads the sext I have just received from BeautifullyStained, a staircase with a wooden railing that was, indeed, beautifully stained.
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This afternoon, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, hosted an emergency meeting of tribal leaders, government representatives, and NGO officials to call for a halt to a Monday auction in Paris that involves human remains and sacred indigenous objects.
News
On this week’s art crime blotter: an SFMOMA café started selling half-baked copies of art-themed desserts, torch-carrying protesters raided Stonehenge, and cops got in trouble for a making a sand sculpture of a nude murder victim.