Art
The Last Victorian Microscope Artist
The art of diatom designs didn't really make it into the 21st century.
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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.
Art
If Yayoi Kusama Designed a Video Game
Hohokum, a video game where you play a long, thin worm that changes color based on direction, isn’t just an art-ier version of Snakes.
Art
The Key Players in the Ever-More-Complicated Vivian Maier Case
A little over two weeks ago, the tenuous peace surrounding the production and distribution of artwork by Vivian Maier exploded.
Comics
How Do I Get Into a Gallery?
Here are some 'suggestions' …
News
Getty Adds Thousands of Art Historical Images to Growing Digital Library
Getting museum and library archives digitized is one thing; uniting them on a platform that's uniform and accessible is another.
Art
Art as Warning and Protest at the People’s Climate March
On Tuesday, world leaders will convene at the United Nations to discuss all matters global warming at the UN Climate Summit. Across town today, a reported 310,000 people from places as far reaching as Lima, Peru and the South Bronx loudly made their way through midtown to broadcast their message abo
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, American adulthood, women in comics, dealer/collector mistrust, artists expecting more from dealers, NYC etiquette, Fatih Akin's new genocide film, bad ledes, distorting the Renaissance, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Apple
While all eyes were on Apple's Watch, CEO Tim Cook wrote an open letter which, according to CNET, “sought to reassure Apple's customers that their data was safe from the prying eyes of government surveillance agencies, which have reportedly procured information on electronic communications from Goog
Books
The Collagist’s Hand: Afton Wilky’s "Textureechoes"
To immediately grasp the innovative nature of Afton Wilky’s debut volume Clarity Speaks of a Crystal Sea and to begin to appreciate its exploration of language’s materialities and its playful stretching of the conventions of the codex form, one need only consider its front cover.
Art
Harriet Korman’s Chromatic and Linear Improvisations
The key to Harriet Korman’s work is drawing. However, until this exhibition, Harriet Korman: Line or Edge, Line or Color, New Paintings and Drawings, at Lennon, Weinberg she has tended to show only a few drawings at a time.
Art
In London, Showcases for Self-Taught Artists’ Works
LONDON — Back in the 1970s, England, the home of such pioneering researchers in the outsider art field as Roger Cardinal and the late Victor Musgrave, played a significant role in calling attention to a subfield which, at that time, was still emerging within the art world’s international terrain.