Art
Jam-Packed Spring/Break Art Show Pulls into Moynihan Station
In its fourth year, Spring/Break Art Show is temporarily transforming the disused offices of Moynihan Station into an art fair based on the theme of "transaction."
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Art
Artists Find Common Ground in Language of Abstraction
PHILADELPHIA — Abstraction is, by its very nature, an exercise in reduction, in simplifying the elements of form, material, and subject matter to their very base, or one might say, to the very limits of where one can possibly go.
In Brief
Artist in Trouble for Tagging Joshua Tree National Park
A tag painted by the Swedish-Portuguese street artist and nightclub owner André Saraiva on a rock in Joshua Tree National Park has sparked an investigation after he posted a photo of it on Instagram on February 25.
Opinion
Looking at Art May Keep You Fit, Study Suggests
Contemplating paintings might not just offer psychological benefits, but also physical ones.
Announcement
All 37 of Vermeer's Works "Re-created" for a New York Exhibition
All 37 of Vermeers works, Re-created, will be displayed in a single gallery and as they would have originally appeared, fresh from Vermeer’s brush.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6Nzc5NTQsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyMjI3NDMsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6Nzk1MDY3LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjgyNzYyMCwiZmwiOjUzMzUzMC
News
Archaeologists Are Creating a Database of Endangered Sites
Scholars estimate that in North Africa and the Middle East alone, there could be up to five million archaeological sites. The majority are still unknown or else have never been officially recorded.
Art
8 Figurative Painters in an Atemporal World
Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work’s facture.
Art
Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show
Long before Desperate Housewives, Honey Boo Boo, or any of those viral BuzzFeed lists, there was the American side show.
Opinion
Will Crowdfunding Outpace Old-Fashioned Arts Patronage?
You can’t buy love, as The Beatles famously proclaimed, but perhaps you can buy cultural capital.
Art
On the Brink of Extinction, an Indigenous Language Gets Its First Dictionary
Despite their important role in strengthening cultures and communities, languages are fragile things.
Art
The Sounds of Nature, Transcribed and Composed
Sound maps of rivers and songs for cicadas are two examples of a new kind of music inspired by 19th-century German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: Brothers trying to offload fake Goya get conned, gallery manager siphons off $450,000 from Botero sale, and French thieves make off with the King of Siam's crown.