Art
It's the week we swap out our 2014 street art wall calendar for our 2015 sexy art handlers wall calendar, so in addition to a high-concept yule log to keep you warm and a New Year's Day exhibition reception to keep your buzz going, our suggestions include a visit to Times Square — but not for the re
Art
Preparing a list of the best art exhibitions in the world is a lofty endeavor, but we're not going to pretend we've seen every single show on the globe, only many of them. Consider this a subjective but informed list of our global favorites that we want you to know about.
Interview
The elusive Des Lawrence picked for this series an artist he confessed was “hard to track.” But John Wilkins, who goes by WIL, is an “overlooked genius,” he said.
Art
The strange, protective garments worn by Ebola health care workers have been captured by Peter Casaer, a photographer with Médicins sans Frontières, in a series of discomfiting portraits.
In Brief
Mons, a city in Belgium that's been designated the "European Capital of Culture" for 2015, saw its year in the spotlight get off to a rocky start after one of its marquee commissions collapsed.
In Brief
The Museums Association, the largest professional membership organization for UK museums and their workers, is planning to revise its ethical guidelines in the hopes of dissuading institutions around the country from selling off works in their collections, the Independent reported.
In Brief
A second sculpture by Jeff Koons is conspicuously absent from his retrospective at the Centre Pompidou after a photographer's widow complained to the art star and the museum's administration that "Naked" (1988) constituted copyright infringement.
News
What if art historians applied the same scrutiny to a contemporary installation by Tracey Emin as they did to a Renaissance masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci?
Art
DETROIT — The People’s Biennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) successfully draws on the founding concept of the biennial art event, with the original model of the Venice Biennale in 1895 intended to be a sort of World’s Fair of contemporary art.
Comics
The perfect storm …
Opinion
This week, New York's creative soul, social media sell-out, KFC in Japan, bad architecture, dressing the same around the world, web 3.0, and more.
Opinion
A scientist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has strung together nearly 200 PlayStation 3 video game consoles to create a low-cost supercomputer, the perfect thing to simulate two black holes slamming into each other.