In Brief
France's chief of state has pledged his support for the American artist Paul McCarthy, after the artist's 80-foot-tall inflatable sculpture "Tree," which bares an uncanny resemblance to a butt plug, proved intolerable to prudish Parisians.
Announcement
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News
How do you capture and preserve the experience of a new media artwork created on Twitter in 2010? How do you re-create the design and feel of Twitter's interface at that time, and populate that interface with users' contemporaneous profile photos?
Interview
Franklin Sirmans, curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), has replaced Cameron as artistic director for Prospect.3: Notes for Now, the biennial's latest installment. So there is a lot riding on Prospect.3, which opens on October 25 — especially for Sirmans, whose rol
Art
Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’s documentary about Edward Snowden, premiered to a sold-out audience at the New York Film Festival on October 10.
Art
This week, a forgotten graffiti documentary, Bushwick bursting with international art, classic zombies, restoring color to ancient sculptures, and more.
Art
Long before television or the internet infused daily life with spectacle, there was the circus.
Opinion
For all the studies considering how we relate to artwork and artists that are producing fascinating results, there are others that are duds.
Art
Over the weekend, more than 300 artists opened up their work spaces to the public for the 18th annual Gowanus Open Studios.
Art
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, 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
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.