News
A few weeks ago, the Wellcome Library announced a new initiative to digitize more than 800,000 pages of material from British psychiatric hospitals. Dating between the 18th and 20th centuries, the trove includes examples of patient artwork and writing, as well as patient-produced publications.
Art
When 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, were “disappeared” by police on September 26, it didn't take long for residents of the town, and then the state of Guerrero, and then the nation at large to head to the streets to express their rage and sorrow
News
When Turkey held its armed forces — and its citizen volunteers — back from intervening in the Islamic State's assault on the Kurdish town of Kobani in Syria in early October, protests erupted.
Opinion
Two weeks ago, when critic Ken Johnson reviewed Michelle Grabner's current solo exhibition in the New York Times, he fell into a trap. Johnson didn't like Grabner's work, which is fine, but rather than breaking it down to understand why he didn't like it, he resorted to half-baked biographical stere
In Brief
A bill quietly introduced by United States Senator Harry Reid would protect an 800,000-acre swath of Nevada desert containing the land art works of Michael Heizer, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Art
This week, a classic film from the LA Rebellion is being screened, two LA artists talk Marsden Hartley, karaoke as art is in the spotlight, and more.
Art
On October 28, Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), hosted “Synthetic Aesthetics: New Frontiers in Contemporary Design,” an evening of presentations and discussion about the field of synthetic biology.
News
A photograph of a mother and her young daughter embracing has been removed from a gallery exhibition in Paris after seven anonymous letters prompted the gallerist and the director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) to censor the work.
Art
MEDFORD, Mass. — Poor Jumbo. In P.T. Barnum’s hands he became the most famous African elephant in the world — lure to throngs of circus visitors and unknowing shill for countless products. His outsized fame, undimmed by his premature demise, has much to tell us about the rise of a celebrity-driven e
News
The National Gallery of Canada may lock out 175 of its employees next month if negotiations between the museum and the union that represents the workers are not successful.
Art
PARIS — The long work on the Musée national Picasso is finally over and it has majestically reopened at the Hôtel Salé, bringing with it a new wave of Pablo Picasso admiration in which I share.
Art
This week, Hans Haacke is back on the scene and better than ever, we're leading a discussion about alternative economies in the art world, there's an artistic excavation in Queens, talk of riot, conspiracy, or rebellion in Brooklyn, and much more.