Art
From the Couches to the Conservation Labs, the Whitney Museum's New Building
They say you don't realize what you were missing until you get it. Well, New York City was missing a building for showing modern and contemporary art.
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Art
An Opera Filmed at the Largest Particle Physics Lab in the World
A movie set amongst the machines of CERN, the world's largest particle physics facility, considers how both art and science strive to understand the universe, and what it is to be human.
Art
Liberating the Anonymous Figures in Old Master Paintings
In the past year, obscure figures from master paintings in museums around the world have been moonlighting as street art, thanks to a project called Outings.
Comics
The Anxieties of Landscape Painting
Often nature itself gets in the way.
Performance
A Warhol-Inspired Performance Pops in the Wrong Ways
In general, it’s very difficult to assume the mantle of a Warholian legacy.
Art
In Paintings and Collage, the Beginnings of a New Language
The German artist Charline von Heyl’s current show, Dusseldörf, currently on view at Petzel’s new uptown gallery, presents a group of von Heyl’s early collages and paintings from 1990–1995.
Art
Relishing in the Habsburg Dynasty's Decadent Legacy
MINNEAPOLIS — “Make love not war,” the ‘60s era anti-war slogan, could have been the official credo of the noble House of Habsburg.
Books
You've Been Shot by a Smooth Photographer: The World of Michael Jackson Impersonators
Lorena Turner’s book The Michael Jacksons is the end product of a journey to track down, photograph, and interview Michael Jackson impersonators.
Interview
What Happens When a Feminist Artist Interviews a Pickup Artist
Tired of the one-sided and often misogynistic narrative of the pickup artist (PUA), visual art Angela Washko wanted to provide a more complex understanding of PUAs by recasting their stories from women’s perspectives.
News
Outrage in China Over Replicas of Its Own Historic Sites
Controversy has erupted over two replicas of important heritage sites in China, a country famous for its many reproductions of other nations' famous structures.
Art
The Diverse Designs of "Do Not Disturb" Signs
As the son of a hotel manager, Edoardo Flores spent his childhood around objects many of us associate solely with the niceties of vacation.
Art
With the Help of Prosthetics and Psychics, a Photographer Dramatizes His Possible Fates
After photographer Phil Toledano experienced both the sudden death of his mother and the slower, drawn out demise of his father, he became obsessed with his own potential futures.