News
Crunching the Numbers Behind the Boom in Private Art Museums
What kind of person opens a private contemporary art museum?
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Suspicions of Sa†anism Spur Seizure of Ar†is†’s Sculp†ures
It appears that toting around any horned animal sculptures is enough to suggest one's connection to Satanism — or at least that appears to be the case in Lebanon.
News
Introducing the New Koch Zero: Billionaire Leaves American Natural History Museum Board
The billionaire businessman David H. Koch has left his position on the board of trustees of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) after serving on it for 23 years.
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CalArts' MA Aesthetics and Politics Program Announces Theorist in Residence and Visiting Faculty
The MA Aesthetics and Politics Program at CalArts is pleased to announce that its 2016 Theorist in Residence will be philosopher and historian Lauren Berlant. The MA program’s Visiting Faculty for Fall 2016 will be Santiago Zabala.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NjMzNTIsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsIm
Art
19th-Century French Caricatures Reinvented in a Game About Bird Lawyers
Aviary Attorney is a game based on the caricatures of 19th-century French artist J. J. Grandville, who skewered the aristocrats and politicians of his time by illustrating society figures as animals.
Art
Painted Colors in Conflicted Motion
Sometime in late 1997, at the former site of the New Museum, I was introduced to a seemingly dejected young painter named Odili Donald Odita.
Comics
What Do You DO Do?
How it feels to be an artist at a party.
News
Kaleidoscopic Interior by Pritzker Prize–Winning Architect Faces Demolition in NYC
Since opening in 1976, 1 United Nations Plaza has been an experience like tumbling into a hall of mirrors.
Art
An Art Project Ensures Victims of Human Trafficking Don’t Fall Through the Cracks
Last year, New York-based activist-artist Molly Gochman read an article about human trafficking, an issue about which she was largely unaware.
Opinion
How Beauty Can Help Us Empathize
This past weekend David Brooks, the conservative columnist at the New York Times left behind his contrarian punditry for a bit and tried his hand at writing on beauty.
Art
Revisiting a Canadian Icon's Nationalist Landscapes, in the US
LOS ANGELES — Unless you’re Canadian or an art historian, chances are you’ve never heard of the Group of Seven.
Art
Museums Are for Lovers (of Social Media)
LOS ANGELES — You enter the Diana Thater installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and start to read the introductory wall text.