News
Walmart Goes After Photographer's Widow
If you needed another reason to wonder why Walmart might be one of the world's most evil companies, then the recent story pitting the retail giant against a family of photographers may fit the bill.
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Art
Biodiversity Traced in Over 2 Million Natural History Museum Images
From rows of tiny pinned insects to drawers of stuffed birds of prey, the holdings of natural history museums are as varied as the biodiversity they collect. However, accessibility is often a problem, as is the connection of data across institutions.
Opinion
Saluting Sun Ra at 100
The artist known as Sun Ra would have turned 100 years old today. In death, as in life, the man born Herman Poole Blount on May 22nd, 1914 is a forceful enigma, an influence on more than a generation of musicians, thinkers, and artists.
Interview
Artists Pick Artists: Serban Savu
Serban Savu lives in Cluj, Romania and makes his paintings in a former paintbrush factory. His subjects are his surroundings, his people and places, sometimes painted directly or other times invented.
Interview
Masks for the Surveillance State
SAN FRANCISCO — It seems like everyone is making artistic reactions to our increasingly surveilled world.
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?