Art
Most tourists who wander into the rotunda of Federal Hall on Wall Street likely won't be there for this week's Portal Art Fair, but the three floors of mixed-media art may cause them to linger longer in the 19th-century space.
Interview
"I’m trying to make explicit the questions I ask myself: Can the figure bossily occupy the restraining space of the canvas?"
Art
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Highlighting six HCMC-based contemporary artists and featuring several large works all incorporating new media, this exhibit would feel at home in any global arts city, from NYC to Beijing.
Art
When I was a little girl, I always wondered what my Teddy Ruxpin mechanical bear would say if there wasn't a cassette tape commanding his interactions with me.
News
If you can't get enough of the myth of the mad genius, you'll love the results of this new study: In the journal Personality and Individual Differences, researchers suggest that creative individuals share more personality traits with psychopaths than their less creative peers do.
In Brief
Rejection sure is tough, especially when you're a white applicant vying for a spot in a museum internship program that's explicitly open only to minority groups.
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, explore a meticulous re-creation of thousands-year-old Buddhist caves, listen to two experimental piano performances, join a discussion on the current state of art and feminism, and more.
News
On this week’s art crime blotter: an MFA student's sculpture about campus gun laws violated campus gun laws, collector Aby Rosen forked over $7 million in unpaid taxes on art, and the painter of the Donald Trump micropenis portrait was attacked by one of the candidate's supporters.
In Brief
Today, Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani was released from jail after spending over a year in Tehran's Evin Prison for her satirical drawing of Iran's policymakers as animals.
News
I Am Chut Wutty, a documentary by British filmmaker Fran Lambrick detailing Wutty’s work and tragic death, was set to be shown publicly at Phnom Penh's Meta House on April 20 — until the authorities had their say.
Art
There's a large pool taking up most of the floor space at Recess.
Interview
Art fairs are a bit like the shopping malls of the art world.