Comics
The Questions that Never Go Away
There's always going to be those questions.
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In Brief
When Arty Music Videos Rip Off Artists
Another day, another artist's work is put to commercial use without permission.
Art
A Disappeared Houdini Film Escapes from Obscurity
The great escape artist Harry Houdini starred in five silent films in the early 20th century, but one considered among his best was long considered lost — until now.
Art
10 Stellar Culture Documentaries the Oscars Snubbed
Here is my roundup, not only of films from the last year but of the past decade. These are films that you may have missed in theatres, never saw because they got a one week showing in NYC and LA and nowhere else, or that were simply too far below the radar.
News
New Tally Shows Sexism Alive and Well at Top NYC Art Galleries
Curator Maura Reilly posted an image of compiled gallery gender statistics on Facebook today, a "report card" by anonymous feminist art collective Pussy Galore showing the percentages of women represented by some of the top art galleries in New York City.
In Brief
French Museums Spar Over Goya Paintings
A small museum in southwestern France has just gained a Goya thanks to a new authentication that's left a different French museum with a mere copy.
Art
Abstraction that Invites Speculation
When I walked into Emily Roysdon’s latest exhibition, If Only a Wave, at Participant Inc., I initially felt like I might not be able to decipher the work.
Books
The Massive Men of Homoerotic Manga
Amidst the magical girls and sentient robots that dominate the Japanese graphic novels and comics known as manga, pockets of intrigue and eroticism lie.
Interview
New App Lets Users Outsource Their Relationships
Part art project, part philosophical experiment, and part functional app, pplkpr is an app that “tracks, analyzes, and auto-manages your relationships.”
Art
An Interactive Kandinsky to Consider and Destroy the Elements of Abstract Art
A ghostly bird emerges from an envelope and a pair of triangles transform into a dog in "Animated Kandinsky," an interactive version of Wassily Kandinsky's vibrant 1932 "Decisive Pink."
In Brief
Woodcut Kitty Porn of the Edo and Meiji Periods
A new exhibition coming to the Japan Society this spring brings a different perspective to bear on our feline friends.
Art
Feeling at Home with Alison Bechdel
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When it comes to creating an installation of the work of cartoonist Alison Bechdel, a curator is faced with more than the usual conundrums of what merits inclusion.