In Brief
“Look up here, I’m in heaven/I’ve got scars that can’t be seen," sings a frail, blindfolded David Bowie from a hospital bed in his video for "Lazarus," released four days before his death on January 10.
Performance
The opera Angel's Bone, having its world premiere at the Prototype festival, opens with a married woman fantasizing about telling her husband that she doesn’t love him.
Art
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
Announcement
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Books
Long before the ubiquity of Google Maps, these colorful engravings, produced between 1572 and 1617, comprised the world's most accurate and elaborate collection of urban cartography ever made.
Art
MEXICO CITY — Walking through Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Pseudomatisms feels like being inside a cyborg or supercomputer.
Art
Coney Island has a history as dizzying as any of the roller coasters, carousels, sideshows, and other frenetic attractions that have operated on its piece of Brooklyn shore.
Comics
I'm guessing these won't get made.
Opinion
This week, David Bowie's style as a GIF, Sean Penn and El Chapo, wealthy artists and grants, MOCA's new permanent collection installation, and more.
Opinion
This week, North Korea went boom and China went bust.
Art
Progress is one of the key myths to the reception, assessment, assimilation, and display of modernist art.
Art
On 52nd Street, not far from the Neil Simon Theater, where Broadway’s high-tech magic act, The Illusionists, was selling out shows, there lives a more natural illusionist. His name is Richmond Shepard, and he’s an 86-year-old mime.