Guide
Your Concise Guide to Gowanus Open Studios 2014
This weekend, 302 artists and arts spaces will open their doors for Gowanus Open Studios (GOS) 2014, running 12–6pm on Saturday and Sunday.
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In Brief
24-Hour Strike Affects UK Museums
An all-day strike yesterday saw operations at a number of UK museums stopped or decreased as nearly 250,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union walked off the job over caps on pay and pensions, the Guardian reported.
Opinion
Some Tips for Artists from Chinese President Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping, president of China and general secretary of its Communist Party, has, like his predecessors going back to Mao Zedong, some opinions about how "art workers" should go about their labor.
Interview
ArtPrize Winner Anila Quayyum Agha Talks Sacred Spaces and Religion
Last Friday, Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha won both the popular and juried vote at ArtPrize for her installation "Intersections." It was the first time in the history of the Grand Rapids-based competition that an artist reaped top honors in both categories.
Performance
Performing the Rituals of Rebellion
In our increasingly digital world, live performance still manages to bring us together, away from the keyboard, for a period of time, however brief. Attending a performance is a kind of ritualistic act, which I have been thinking about since witnessing DEBUT, a new performance work by choreographer
Art
An Exhibition to Put on (and Inside) Your Head
PARIS — Located in La Chaux-de-Fonds near Neuchâtel in the Swiss Jura Mountains, watchmakers Greubel Forsey are celebrating their tenth anniversary by honoring the gadfly artist Robert Filliou (1926–1987) in Paris with a rather curious show called Chapeaux! Hommage à Robert Filliou — and with a nonf
Art
Martha Rosler Tackles the Problem of Representation
LONDON — In the ’70s, photographer (and videographer, and rigorous cultural critic, and possible genius) Martha Rosler brought a critical eye, politically and philosophically, to the medium’s seductive pretenses of objectivity.
Comics
The Most Important Part of the Creative Process
Those 10 minutes after you wake up, stay in bed, and think about everything you're going to make that day.
Art
Japanese-Paraguayan Photographer Searches for a Homeland
Leaving one’s country to make a new life in another can be an isolating experience, but growing up as the child or grandchild of an immigrant can also be lonely in its own way. Photographer Ricardo Nagaoka knows this firsthand.
Art
Matisse's "Swimming Pool" Goes on View for the First Time in Two Decades
When Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs opened this past Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the artist's only site-specific cut-out piece went on public view for the first time in over 20 years.
Opinion
Women and Men Looking and Not Looking at Art
For better or for worse, visual art seems to be having a populist moment. On the "better" side of that situation is the fact that more people are taking the time to think about and engage with art; on the "worse" side is that for a number of those people, engaging with art means using it as a backdr
In Brief
Islamic State Stymies Turkish Biennial
A Turkish biennial close to the Syrian border has been postponed due to the Islamic State's ongoing assault on the nearby town of Kobani, The Art Newspaper (TAN) reported.