Art

Mankind's Mess, Subsumed by Beautiful Landscapes

In the middle of the night, photographer Simon Norfolk dips a garden rake, wrapped in shaggy white carpet — a makeshift wick — into petroleum and sets it on fire.

Art

Gordon Parks's Tribute to the Great Migration, 65 Years Past Due

Few magazines disseminated the American Dream as widely as Life did in the years following the Second World War.

In Brief

Artist Banned from Stedelijk Museum for Threatening to Piss on the Art

The Dutch artist Rob van Koningsbruggen has been banned for life from the Stedelijk Museum after repeatedly threatening to relieve himself on works at the Amsterdam institution.

Art

A Painter's Reflective (and Reflected) Photographic Portraits

PARIS — The use of mirrors in art has been a rich one, used by Pop, Kinetic, Minimal, and Conceptual artists. In this long tradition, the Jeu de Paume currently offers an additional point of reference.

News

Crimes of the Art

On this week's art crime blotter: Uncanny canine sculpture goes for a walk, German art dealer gets six years, and Navy veteran accused of improper flag use in baby photo shoot.

Art

Photographing the Destructive Isolation of a US Military Base in Afghanistan

LONDON — The documentary Restrepo (2010) opens with a dramatic shot of a helicopter whirring through the craggy brown peaks, green fields, and deep valleys of Afghanistan.

Art

ArtRx NYC

This week, Donatello has a New York moment, the films of the Forcefield artist collective are in the spotlight, Dread Scott discusses revolution and art while propaganda art is the topic in Bushwick, and more.

Art

Fred Wilson on Isamu Noguchi's Multifaceted Modernism

On a dismal, rainy Saturday in Manhattan, as dirty snow slowly melted to reveal winter’s detritus outside, the cheerful, humorous, and ever approachable Fred Wilson led a group of gallerygoers through Isamu Noguchi’s Variations.

In Brief

An Art Museum Designed for Taking Selfies

Most museums across the US and Europe have had a difficult time handling the selfie onslaught.

Art

An Online Design Platform to Make Your City More Walkable

What started as an unsanctioned urban intervention is getting increased official support for bringing grassroots wayfinding to the streets.

News

Kenneth Goldsmith Remixes Michael Brown Autopsy Report as Poetry

This past weekend, at a conference called Interrupt 3 at Brown University, poet Kenneth Goldsmith read Michael Brown's St. Louis County autopsy report as a poem.

In Brief

Is the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Really Giving Kanye West an Honorary Doctorate? [UPDATED]

In a recent interview with the French design blog Clique, noted college dropout Kanye West claimed that he is "getting an honorary doctorate on May 5th from the Art Institute of Chicago."