In Brief
David Foster Wallace was right, meta-television is the future, but a new meta-corporate ad by Quiznos may be one of the best examples of how corporations will serve up anti-corporate humor for the masses in an attempt to advance their own toasty agenda.
Art
DETROIT — Hey, denizens of the art world, let’s take a moment to consider the radical implications of chilling the fuck out for a minute.
Art
Artistic interpretations of self are inhabiting the nave of Manhattan's Church of St. Paul the Apostle, with contemporary sculpture, painting, college, and other media installed alongside the candlelit chapels and religious icons.
News
Last month, an unofficial blog set up by graduate students at USC’s Roski School of Art was quietly taken down.
Art
In the 18th-century, French artist Jacques Gautier-D’Agoty painted numerous dissected corpses with muted colors and quiet dignity that made them appear alive, despite the flayed skin and exposed muscles.
Art
Every hero has an origin story.
Comics
It takes a while to figure out.
Opinion
This week, did Duchamp appropriate a woman's artwork, Naomi Wolf compares Kathryn Bigelow to Leni Riefenstahl, how photojournalism is changing, Guerrilla Girls critical of Broad collection, and more.
Opinion
On Wednesday, Intel announced that it was “dropping its longtime support" of the Science Talent Search, "the most prestigious science and mathematics competition for American high school students,” according to the New York Times.
Books
It would be impossible for me to write impartially about Michael Gizzi’s newly published Collected Poems. I became acquainted with Michael and his poetry when I was twenty.
Art
I had not seen Kyle Staver’s frieze-like clay sculptures before encountering two of them in Kyle Staver: Tall Tales, her current show at both Lower East Side spaces of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects.
Interview
“Go ahead; you can write whatever you want about me,” Jonas Wood says. “Everyone knows I’m a stoner,” he adds, since beer has been mostly displaced by California’s drug of choice during my Los Angeles series of interviews.