News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Jonathan Meese acquitted in Nazi salute dispute, Picasso works disappear in transit, and Charles Saatchi sues Saatchi Art for Saatchi name.
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In Brief
Study Reveals Electrically Stimulating the Brain Can Enhance Creativity
A recent study conducted by scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that it is possible to enhance creativity by zapping certain regions of the brain with electrical currents.
Opinion
Rebuilding Demolished Penn Station Isn't New York's Redemption
When the soaring ceilings and Doric columns of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station started to fall under the wrecking ball in 1963, architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable called it a "monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman e
Art
ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a film on vibrant street life in Marrakesh, a talk on the history of gay Japanese art, a multi-media sci-fi installation, and much more.
News
Three Female Artists and an Architecture Collective Nominated for 2015 Turner Prize
On Tuesday, Tate Modern announced the four nominees for the 2015 Turner Prize: multidisciplinary artist Bonnie Camplin, sound and performance artist Janice Kerbel, sculpture, installation, and collage artist Nicole Wermers, and the architecture collective Assemble.
Performance
A Tale of Revenge that Runs from Ancient Greece to ISIS
Playwright Charles Mee is a master at mining ancient myths for the truths that transcend memory-torturing details and reimagining those truths for contemporary theatergoers.
Art
When Found Photographs Tell New Stories
SAN FRANCISCO — Situated directly under the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography occupies a 28,000 square foot warehouse originally built in 1935.
Art
ArtRx NYC
When your eyes start watering and you hit fairtigue, try an experimental music festival, an exhibition of work by art handlers at major NYC museums, a black art Wikipedia edit-a-thon, or any of these other events.
In Brief
Apple Watches Won't Work on Tattooed Wrists
The new Apple Watch is the pinnacle of technological achievement.
Art
Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega
Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata photographed every bodega in Manhattan from December of 2012 to August of 2013, and even in that short span she saw so many shutter that it became depressing to return for second shots.
Art
Performance Artists Use Stand-Up Tropes, but Not For Laughs
LOS ANGELES — There’s nothing funny about art. Writing art criticism is a serious endeavor. But at some point, the performance of professionalism in the art world just started to feel like one big joke.
Guide
Your Concise Guide to Frieze Week 2015
Have you finally recovered from Armory Week? Are you ready to do it all again? Too bad, because it’s Frieze Week in New York City!