Art
The Cass Gilbert–designed Woolworth building was the world’s tallest when it was completed in 1913, and while it relinquished that title long ago, its gothic exterior is still a commanding presence on Broadway.
Art
Among the sleek catalogues at the entrance to the Clifton Benevento Gallery sits a tattered hardcover, its paper jacket ripped to reveal the plain binding. This is artist Polly Apfelbaum’s copy of A Handweaver’s Pattern Book.
Community
Artist studios in California, Colorado, Israel, New Jersey, and Quebec.
News
DIA evaluation is doubled, Sekhemka statue sale loses two museums accreditation, Met Opera lockout postponed, and more from the week in art news.
Art
Tapeworms, leeches, lice, bedbugs, fleas, and ticks — the litany of Marcus DeSieno's photographic subjects is enough to cause a few paranoid itches
Art
Spectacle excels at making the most of whatever its members put their eclectic, seemingly tireless minds to. Seven days a week the volunteer-made, volunteer-run, 30-seat screening space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hustles out a menagerie of films — rare, radical, forgotten, misbegotten, offbeat, and
Art
"There are so many sounds in museums that we usually ignore that are absolutely engrossing once you take the time to focus on them," says artist John Kannenberg, who's been recording museum noise for 15 years.
Film
Very few figures in fashion have embodied the archetype of the talented and tortured artist like Yves Saint Laurent.
Art
OMAHA — Both teaching and social practice ask a leader (artist, teacher, organizer) to codify and articulate a set of steps that are then acted out by a group. There’s a place for uncertainty, but it should be strategically applied: by choice, not default.
In Brief
NY YIMBY recently got a set of renderings of the structure that will take over 5Pointz’s burial ground at 22-44 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens.
In Brief
Starting September 3, the Brooklyn Museum will be free for visitors under 20.
Art
On Thursday, August 7, Hyperallergic will be hosting our next ArtTalk featuring the Yams Collective — aka HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? — at their studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn.