Art
Joyce Pensato is best known for her stark, large-scale paintings of cartoon characters and in particular for her series of Batman paintings that depict the cape crusader’s iconic mask using splashy skeins of black and white paint.
News
On this week’s art crime blotter: thieves take Taco Bell painting, vandals critique Kant, and a man mistaken for Banksy sues six NYPD officers.
Announcement
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Art
ROCHESTER, UK — Thanks to an association with Charles Dickens, North Kent is better known for literature than for contemporary art. But a new project by Adam Chodzko connects the two.
Art
Concurrent surveys of new American art in two specific media — New American Sculpture at FiveMyles and Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography at Pioneer Works — reinforce just how interdisciplinary their respective fields have become.
News
Last Friday, a judge in the Macedonian capital Skopje convicted six employees at the state-owned Museum of Macedonia of stealing objects from the institution’s collection and selling them abroad through an organized crime ring, AFP reported.
Art
New York is a big art city, with big art fairs, big museums, and lots of big concept art.
Art
It's a week filled with myths, performances, and discussions, but we know you're up for it.
Art
There’s something slightly off about Elgin Park, the sleepy steel mill town where it’s eternally 1964.
Art
Around 100 masks of every contorted grimace imaginable, both human and animalistic, are assembled on the top floor of the Rubin Museum of Art for the new exhibition Becoming Another: The Power of Masks.
Opinion
A work of literature or art can be effective in different ways — most of which are by nature invisible.
Books
"In a cityscape largely without commercial seduction, the banality of the shop windows underscored a real cultural difference between East and West," photographer David Hlynsky writes in his introduction to Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain.