Art
Painting Everday Objects in All Their Glory
Painting reached a turning point with Paul Cézanne wherein a picture would no longer be conceived simply as a window onto the world with the artist at a remove from the act of creating.
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A Barbara Hepworth Retrospective Hampered by Her Male Contemporaries
LONDON — Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World marks one of the last exhibitions backed by the outgoing Tate Britain director, Penelope Curtis.
Art
It’s Hard Not to Like New York’s Harborside Photo Festival
Last weekend, the 2015 edition of Photoville opened the doors of its repurposed shipping containers for a two-week fair of photography.
News
A 23-Foot-Tall Air Filter Is Turning Rotterdam's Smog into Jewelry
This month, a 23-foot-tall outdoor structure that improves the air quality of the surrounding area landed in Rotterdam.
Art
Hand-tinted Photos of Geishas and Idyllic Landscapes in Early Modern Japan
Japan’s Meiji period (1868–1912) is commonly described as a time of quick economic and political modernization and self-conscious competition with Western military might and colonial aspirations.
Opinion
T-shirts that Speak for Ourselves
Yesterday I walked past a man with a t-shirt that called out in big block letters, “DON’T ASK ME 4 SHIT.”
Art
ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, an exhibition of Chicano art opens, an essayistic documentary from filmmaker Chris Marker screens, a book signing brings together former Interview magazine editor Bob Colacello and photographer Catherine Opie, and more.
Art
Various Visions of the Future in NYC's First New Subway Station in 25 Years
It only took a day after Sunday's opening for a candy bar wrapper to lodge beneath the new wooden bench of the 34th Street-Hudson Yards platform, and vague stains to appear on the station's light granite floor tiles.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a trucker took down an Antony Gormley statue, vandals hammered a shiny public sculpture, and a Swiss dealer got in trouble for selling stolen Picassos to a Russian billionaire.
Announcement
Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area Launches October 2015
Launching October 2–10, Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area is the West Coast’s first region-wide event celebrating Asian art, with a week of public programs, exhibitions, and events hosted at participating galleries, auction houses, museums, and non-profit organizations throughout the Bay Area.[http:/
Art
Restaging a Turning Point in Japan's 1920s Avant-Garde
Art history doesn’t have to live in the past, as proved by the Flux Factory exhibition Ero Guro Nansensu, which closes today.
Art
Flickery Nonsense for the Overworked Motion Designer
For motion designers with clients demanding flashy movement that is in fact total nonsense, Vancouver-based art director and motion designer Peter Quinn created a handy set of 100 pre-made fake user interface (UI) animations.