Art
Art at First Sound
Riding the elevator at the New Museum has become an alluring audio experience. Nearly every floor calls out with some unseen signature of sound, whether it's the notes of a boozy, guitar-strumming party or white noise.
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Interview
MoMA's Postconceptual Curators
Ever since 2009, when the Museum of Modern Art expanded its Department of Media to include performance art (it is now the Department of Media and Performance Art), it has been both praised and criticized for its focus on acquiring transdisciplinary and postconceptual work that is often ephemeral, li
News
Frank Lloyd Wright House Among America's Most Endangered Places
Yesterday the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for the year, an annual call for awareness that it's rallied for 27 years.
Art
Percent for Art Programs Struggling Nationwide
If you've ever admired a beautiful mosaic or mural in New York City, there's a chance you have the Percent for Art Program (PCA) to thank.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, despite the start of summer, we're feeling a little morbid. Good thing there are events and shows about death all over a town.
Art
An Abandoned Cubicle Complex Filled with Art
NEWARK, NJ — I've been to so many art gallery shows in the New York City area that they start to blur. But the latest show in the Gateway Project, a series of pop-up group exhibitions in downtown Newark, NJ, put a jolt in my step.
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Public Art in the Sonic Realm
The open structure of Sound Event resulted in a casual atmosphere, where one could sit in on a performance, or station, without feeling pressured to stay through its entire duration.
Opinion
The Trouble with Favela Chic
A Milwaukee bar called Nomad World Pub wanted to create a special place for its customers to watch the World Cup, so it decided to set up a faux favela inspired by Rio de Janeiro’s poverty-stricken mountainside slums.
In Brief
College Student Thwarted by Vagina (Sculpture)
As you may have seen on the internet today, an American exchange student "just wanted to take a funny picture" and ended up stuck inside artist Fernando de la Jara's "Chacán-Pi" (Making Love) sculpture, located on the grounds of the Institute of Microbiology at Tübingen University in Germany.
Announcement
Visit the Seventh Annual DownStreet Art Festival, North Adams, MA
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' (MCLA) and Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) will kick off the seventh annual DownStreet Art [http://engine.nectarads.com/r?e=eyJhdiI6NjY3ODYsImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjEyMjg1OCwiY2giOjE5MzAsImNyIjozNTYwNTMsImRtIjo0LCJmYyI6NDQwNjg4LCJmbCI6MjIzNzQwLCJudyI6MjA3LCJ
Comics
Painting Is Such Sweet Sorrow ...
I'm done.
Art
Frances Stark on Reading Robert Ryman
In one of the final remarks of her talk last Monday for the Dia Art Foundation’s Artists on Artists lectures, Frances Stark hit on the essence of the series: “Being an artist is about falling in love with other artists.”