Film
The Living Metal Scraps and Dancing Dolls of the Quay Brothers
When you watch a film by Stephen and Timothy Quay, those twin princes of darkness, you enter a shadow world.
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In Brief
No Money for Portrait Artists in Congress's New Spending Package
Congress will vote on a new tax and spending bill Friday, and in case you wondered, not a dime of the $1.14 trillion dollar package will go to oil portraits.
Art
A Washington, DC, Nonprofit Reflects on 40 Years of Championing Local Artists
WASHINGTON, DC — ’Tis the season to celebrate, and the Washington Project for the Arts has much to toast.
Art
Portraits that Attempt to Untangle Power
Painter Margaret Bowland is wrestling with the difficult, unwieldy affairs of human social interaction: economic power, police power, physical power, that ability to influence that is inescapable.
Art
More Than a Year After the Dissolution of the Corcoran, Its Art School Still Struggles in a New Home
WASHINGTON, DC — Maeve McCool vividly remembers when she first learned that the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the conjoining Corcoran College of Art and Design would be no more.
Comics
Tracing a Path from Hard-Edge Painting to the Science of Flight
A review of Jacob Hashimoto's solo exhibition In the Cosmic Fugue in comics form.
Art
Microsoft’s New Emotion-Detecting App Deems the Mona Lisa 43% Happy
Microsoft's Project Oxford photo research division has just released a new demo of a tool that detects emotions in photographed faces using machine-learning techniques.
Interview
On Transforming All 613 Jewish Commandments into Dazzling Paintings
In the year 2000, Brooklyn-born painter Archie Rand embarked on the most ambitious project of his career: He would transform each of the 613 Jewish mitzvahs into its own vibrant painting.
Art
Best of 2015: Our Top 10 Los Angeles Art Shows
LOS ANGELES — From a show of ancient Greek bronzes at the J. Paul Getty Museum to Rafa Esparza's adobe brick constructions at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles was overflowing with dynamic exhibitions this year that introduced new talents and reconsidered the old.
Art
Sacred Bones and the Catacomb Saint of Manhattan
Catholic churches in Europe host as many bones as a graveyard, with bits of saints and intact incorrupt bodies encased in glass and displayed on ornate altars.
Interview
The New Director of South Korea's National Modern Art Museum Responds to His Critics
On Monday Bartomeu Marí, the former head of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, began his new job as head of South Korea's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, marking the first time the museum has had an official director in over a year.
Art
From Snippets of Code, a Series of Apps Lets Users Produce Millions of Sounds and Visuals
You’re probably reading this article on your phone. What if, instead, you were taking part in an art exhibit, or a concert, or both?