Art
Under the Big Top with a Century of Art
Long before television or the internet infused daily life with spectacle, there was the circus.
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Opinion
Study Confirms What We Already Know About the Importance of Artists' Authenticity
For all the studies considering how we relate to artwork and artists that are producing fascinating results, there are others that are duds.
Art
All Systems Go at Gowanus Open Studios 2014
Over the weekend, more than 300 artists opened up their work spaces to the public for the 18th annual Gowanus Open Studios.
Art
Fortuitous Paintings, Between Plan and Action
Among the crop of painting shows that opened this season in New York, Amy Feldman’s High Signs is particularly notable for its visual impact and irreverent sense of humor.
News
Susan Sollins, Pioneering Curator and Art Documentarian, Dies
Susan Sollins, the co-founder of Independent Curators International (ICI) and founder and executive director of ART21 — the non-profit organization that produces the artist documentary series art21 — died on October 13 of unknown causes.
In Brief
Vatican Rents Out Sistine Chapel as New Visitor Limits Are Announced
For the first time in its 600-year history, the Sistine Chapel has been rented out for a private event organized by Porsche, The Telegraph reported.
News
Graffiti Crackdown Snares Sanctioned Street Art
The city of Detroit launched a secret new graffiti crackdown in the most antagonizing manner imaginable last week: by issuing thousands of dollars in fines to owners of businesses who had commissioned or given permission to artists to create murals on their buildings.
Art
Reconstructing the Legacy of Surrealism
A Surrealism of hokey séances and dripping clocks has long superseded the movement's political and conceptual radicality in the contemporary imagination.
Art
Crude Beauty and Wordsworthian Grandeur
The artist Stanley Lewis draws and paints the landscapes closest to him, places where he works, teaches, and travels like nearby lakes and roadsides in Chautauqua, New York, or his backyard and studio window views in Leeds, Massachusetts.
Art
Indicting Higher Education in the Arts and Beyond
There’s one very clear take-away from the latest report released by the collective BFAMFAPhD: people who graduate with arts degrees regularly end up with a lot of debt and incredibly low prospects for earning a living as artists.
Community
A View from the Easel
Artist studios in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Mexico.
In Brief
Another Vandal Hits Jeff Koons Retrospective
Last night, a graffiti writer identified by the New York Times as Christopher Johnson, 33, of Manhattan, vandalized a fourth floor wall of the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art.