In Brief
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Hokusai must be turning in his grave.
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Art
Study Finds We Prefer Art Made by Individuals over Collectives
It's common wisdom by now that the art market system thrives on brand-name, star-driven principles: individuals sell, groups not so much (and this despite the fact that many individuals don't make their art alone). But why? Do we really think solo artists make more valuable work than collectives?
In Brief
Automakers Pledge $26 Million to Detroit Institute of Arts
The Detroit Institute of Arts announced today that the city's automakers will contribute $26 million to the museum's $100 million share of a "grand bargain" fund destined to support municipal pensions.
Comics
Why I Became an Artist …
Sometimes I think all the things wrong with me are the reasons why I became an artist …
Performance
Experiential Dance Theater, but with a Muddled Experience
The Knockdown Center is a sprawling, compound-like factory in Maspeth, Queens, that’s been renovated into an industrial-chic venue striving to, according to the website, “create an adaptable environment that thinks beyond what ‘is.’” In that sense, The Wilder Papers, a semi-guided experiential dance
Performance
Kenneth Branagh's Stab at the Bloody Business of Macbeth
Thunder and rain hurtle over the violent, staged sorrow of this new spectacle of Macbeth, installed heath and all in the gaping drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the relationship of the superrich and art, art exhibitions in malls, the seven deadly digital sins, rise of Russian propaganda, queering Black Metal, what the 9/11 Museum is missing, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Rights
Two-hundred twenty-five years ago today, James Madison proposed twelve amendments to the United States constitution. Three and a half months later, ten of the twelve were ratified, and have since become known as the Bill of Rights.
Art
Single Point Perspective: An Arcadian Moment in the Heart of New York’s Lower East Side
For anyone interested in poetry (not the same as verse); underknown art and artists; the artists and poets of the New York School after the death of Franz Kline and Frank O’Hara; collaboration; collage; a do-it-yourself spirit; the Lower East Side (particularly from the late 1960s until the late ‘80
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Mark Greenwold
I was surprised when Mark Greenwold gave me his address, because it was, like my own apartment, in “upstate Manhattan,” a far remove from the center of the art world.
In Brief
Curator Admits Manifesta Art Biennial in Russia Is in Trouble
The chief curator of Manifesta, the roving European Biennial of Contemporary Art, told Deutsche Welle that the biennial has hit an "impasse: nothing’s happening."
Art
Memories Are Made of This: Tom Duncan’s Constructed Past
If the so-called “greatest generation,” those that fought in World War II, have mostly passed on, their children, the pre-boomers born just before and during that conflict are still around.