Art
In Alz, you wander as a blank-faced man through a landscape of trees and skyscrapers that stutter and glitch as a strange black box follows. It's an incredibly short experience, a poem-length immersion in the world of someone caught in the confusion of memory loss.
Opinion
Nothing says yoga quite like a mat that looks like a $100 bill with a razor blade, broken mirror, and lines of cocaine on it.
News
The Wadsworth Atheneum has acquired a significant self portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi, "Self-Portrait as a Lute Player" (c. 1616–18).
Art
The Bruce High Quality Foundation's Brucennial has excited and divided the art world for the past 10 years. On the occasion of the fifth and final Brucennial, and inspired by the open classrooms of the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, we offer you a teacher-student discussion guide to the e
News
Gurlitt will restitute some art, Perry Rubenstein files for bankruptcy, India asks for sculpture repatriation, a new Astoria arts district, and more from the week in art news.
News
A spoof Guggenheim website, globalguggenheim.org, went live this morning with a satirical "Sustainable Design Competition" for the museum's embattled Abu Dhabi branch.
Books
The National Portrait Gallery in London has published a compendium of what portraiture means for the 21st century. While the media may be more tech-heavy than previous centuries, the examination of self remains, perhaps with even more questions of what that means than before.
Art
CHICAGO — A passerby looking through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Conaway Center in Chicago's South Loop last Friday night would have assumed she was witnessing a wedding.
Art
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It might be hard to imagine that only a few decades ago the conventional history of modern art was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, but when I was in college in the 1990s the realms of art history still felt geographically suffocating.
Art
Back in 2012, a curious landmass journeyed around the coast of England, broken free from the Arctic, where it had long been invisible under a glacier. Nowhereisland, as it was anointed by its discoverer, artist Alex Hartley, became land art on a massive scale.
News
In October, we noted activist investor Dan Loeb's opening salvo in his battle with Sotheby's: a public letter that sought reforms, sane and otherwise, at the auction house. Within two days of receiving Loeb's screed, Sotheby's adopted what is called a "poison pill" provision. Two days ago, Loeb file
Interview
I've been thinking a lot recently about counting. Counting can feel lonely sometimes, like you against the world, so I'm always grateful when I encounter other people doing the same. Like artist Micol Hebron.