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Interview

A Talk With Christopher Kardambikis, Artist's Book Enthusiast

Every great museum has at least a few vitrines dedicated to the remarkable object that is the artist's book.

Art

ArtRx NYC

This week, don't forget about Queens, discuss the intersection of art and science, LMCC open studios sound great, site-specific performance at the Socrates Sculpture Park, a discussion about Brutalism in Williamsburg, and, most importantly, the New York Art Book Fair opens!

Books

Photographing a 21st-Century Landscape When the Land Itself Is Disappearing

There's never been much of a unified scene when it comes to capturing landscapes in art, but maybe more even than before artists are very experimental with how to show a stretch of space.

Performance

When Drag Queens Crowd Surf

PORTLAND, Oregon — Pepper Pepper went crowd surfing at her recent drag ball. Declaring to the crowd that it was all about collectivism, she dove out into the sea of hands with a large set of balloons attached to her back.

Opinion

Do Mexican Drug Lords Buy Art?

Art gallerists in Mexico are blaming slow business on an anti–money laundering law targeting drug lords, reports the Washington Post.

In Brief

Jean Nouvel Reveals Designs for Huge Chinese National Art Museum

Architect Jean Nouvel has unveiled his plans for the new National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), a massive structure measuring 130,000 square meters (1,399,308 square feet) — eight times the size of the current NAMOC, and more than double that of the Louvre.

Art

The Last Victorian Microscope Artist

The art of diatom designs didn't really make it into the 21st century.

News

Thousands of Protesters Descend on NYC's Financial District for #FloodWallStreet [UPDATED]

This morning, beginning at 9am, another swarm of environmental protesters gathered in Manhattan, this time downtown, to make a more pointed statement.