In Brief
Just when you'd thought you'd seen it all when it comes to art-breaking mishaps (selfie seekers, I'm looking at you), along comes this incredible footage from China of two boys fracturing a sculpture in the Shanghai Museum of Glass.
Announcement
Bruce Museum's 'Electric Paris' features approximately fifty paintings, photographs, and drawings that explore the influence of artificial lighting on the Impressionists and their contemporaries. Expect a mix of European and American masters: Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and Hen
Art
The idea of capturing something in photography before it disappears dates back almost to the dawn of the medium.
Art
SIEM REAP, Cambodia — Over four million people visited Cambodia in 2014, many of whom came to see Angkor Wat, the country’s most popular tourist destination.
Art
PARIS — Scattered throughout the cavernous nave of the Grand Palais are mountains of shipping containers.
Comics
In "real" life I hate feeling vulnerable.
Opinion
This week, US architecture's odd couple, Roberta Smith about the new SFMOMA, Taibbi on Trump, censorship in Israel, multi-generational affluence in Florence, animals in art project, and more.
Opinion
"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator, which is often socially impressive."
Books
Cards on the table: I prefer short poems to long ones, slender bodies of work to massive ones. So naturally, I consider the best way to read poetry is not in a book, but in a chapbook.
Art
I want to focus on Jasper Johns’s three recent monotypes based on a Vietnam-era photograph of an emotionally shattered soldier, which are included in Jasper Johns: Monotypes at Matthew Marks.
Art
Perhaps we have all been reading his work too narrowly since his first show at Leo Castelli, more than a half-century ago.
Music
During the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in 2011, jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding was awarded Best New Artist, a trophy assumed earmarked for Justin Bieber (who else?), and the scandal that ensued changed the recording industry forever.