Interview
Masks for the Surveillance State
SAN FRANCISCO — It seems like everyone is making artistic reactions to our increasingly surveilled world.
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Art
Striving for Utopia on a Grand Scale in the Kabakovs' Strange City
PARIS — Beneath the bombastic Beaux-Arts dome of the Grand Palais in Paris, artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov have installed an explorable city of white arches and curious pavilions dedicated to attempts and failures to reach a mystical plane.
Interview
Artist Plants a Digital Dance Intervention at MoMA
Art museums and performing artists have a complicated relationship. Though to some they may seem like a natural pairing, or at least a reasonable one, there's an inherent tension.
Art
Inside the Newly Renovated Chrysler Museum of Art
NORFOLK, Virginia — A museum redesign today conjures the towering ambition of statement architecture, images of an aesthetically belabored addition jutting out from an austerely classical building. But the Chrysler Museum of Art, which reopened May 10 after a significant overhaul and extension, is n
Comics
Sometimes You Have to Ask: Are We Crazy?
I ask my wife this question a lot…
Interview
A New Street Art and Graffiti Museum in New Jersey?
This week, Jersey City's Mana Contemporary made the surprise announcement that they will be creating a street art and graffiti museum in a 100,000-square-foot former ice factory near the Holland Tunnel entrance.
News
Bookseller McNally Jackson Opens Art Store
McNally Jackson, one of New York City's marquee independent bookstores, is venturing into art with a new shop devoted to prints, editions, posters, art and artists' books.
Books
A Fashion Mag with Beauty and Brains
There will always be fashion magazines that instruct readers which silk faille caftan is appropriate for lounging on a yacht over Memorial Day weekend, but what about one that traces the sartorial origins of the safety pin as an accessory?
Opinion
Online Game Lets You Smash Ai Weiwei Vases
Remember when a local artist smashed one of Ai Weiwei's painted Han Dynasty urns in protest at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in February? Well, now, thanks to an online game called "Ai Weiwei Whoops!," anyone can be a vase dropper!
News
Morgan Library Puts Hundreds of Rembrandt Etchings Online
The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that it has completed the digitization of its entire collection of Rembrandt etchings.
Interview
Shifting Silhouettes in Oak Park
CHICAGO — At Terrain Exhibitions, an artist-run space in Oak Park, Illinois, artist Karen Azarnia has created an installation consisting of a suite of banners that appear in varying light situations on the front porch of a suburban home.
Art
Using Google Street View to Counter Mexico's Police Violence
The Google Street View photos of Mexican police and army forces gathered on “100 mts” are raw and menacing.