Art
A Performance Artist Draws with His Teeth
Tomorrow at noon, visual and performing artist Tony Orrico will sit down at an eight-by-eight-foot sheet of paper and begin to chew.
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The Radical Ambiguity of Henry Darger
PARIS — I first encountered Henry Darger’s doggedly private, colored drawings depicting his opulent fantasy world at the 1997 The Unreality Of Being show at the Museum of American Folk Art.
Art
Sum of the Arts
Number of positions of movement in Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) = 20
Books
An Artist Transforms His Sketchbooks into a Story
Why does one publish a sketchbook? What unmoored narratives does an artist allow to be revealed, and what obligation does she have to collect her thoughts cohesively?
Announcement
apexart’s Unsolicited Proposal Program 2015: Open Call for Submissions
From October 1–31, NYC’s apexart will accept submissions for its Unsolicited Proposal Program, which welcomes exhibition proposals from anyone, anywhere.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MzMzMywiYXQiOjIwLCJidCI6MCwiY20iOjMwOTMzMCwiY2giOjE5MzAsImNrIjp7fSwiY3IiOjExNDY1MDYsImRtIjo0LCJmYyI6MTIwMzkw
In Brief
Artist Murdered in Oakland While Painting Anti-Violence Mural
On Tuesday, the 27-year-old street artist Antonio Ramos was murdered while painting a mural that was meant to brighten the run-down streets of northwestern Oakland, which has one of the highest violent crime rates in the United States.
Art
Eyewear for Chickens and a Time Capsule Full of Twinkies: Highlights from #AskAnArchivist Day
Today, archivists across the US took to Twitter to answer questions from the public.
News
New Gowanus Landlord Kicks Dozens of Artists Out of Their Studios
It’s two weeks before Gowanus Open Studios, an annual celebration of the artistic community in one of Brooklyn's foremost industrial neighborhoods. But instead of putting the finishing touches on paintings, many artists with Gowanus studios are busy scouring real estate listings.
Film
An Homage to Thailand’s History and Elegy for Its Future
The films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul are inspired by a poetics of everyday life poised between two extremes.
Art
A Photographer Instagrams the Poorest Places in the US
This past summer photographer Matt Black covered 18,000 miles of the poorest places in the United States.
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Join Us to Discuss #KimonoWednesdays and the Decolonialization of Museums #ArtTalk
In light of the recent Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's "Kimono Wednesdays" controversy, we'd like to explore the issues of minority representation in mainstream US museums and who gets to decide how cultural artifacts are represented and presented to the public.
Art
Drawing a Universe of Cosmic Sexuality
The artist Eric Fischl once called Amy Myers’s abstract drawings “totems to Cosmic Sexuality.”