Performance
An After-Midnight Murder Mystery Takes Place in a Cemetery
How do you get people to see theater in a Bronx cemetery at three in the morning? Don't tell them where they're going.
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Announcement
The Mayapple Center in North Stamford, Connecticut, Offers Five-Day Summer Programs in the Arts
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News
Delaware Museum Plans Art Sale to Pay Debt
The Delaware Art Museum will sell at least three, possibly four artworks, to raise money to pay off its debt, the News Journal has reported. The move would violate the rules of both the Association of Art Museum Directors and the American Alliance of Museums, likely bringing sanctions on the Delawar
Interview
Code Art at the Intersection of Data, Space, and Time
Lisa Gwillam and Ray Sweeten form the code-art creating duo DataSpaceTime. Engaging in the aesthetics, the politics, and various undersides of contemporary backend technology, their pieces break down digital images, investigate how visual data interacts with other visual data, and look at how new te
Comics
No Seriously, Put a Bird on It
Oh, Portlandia …
Interview
At 40, Punk Goes to (Richard) Hell
Punk is 40 years old, believe it or not. Now that it’s middle-aged, has punk become passé? Have the few protagonists who survived from the excesses of the era become flabby and bland? No, not necessarily — judging by punk icon Richard Hell, once known as the king of the Lower East Side.
Art
Penguin Group Targets Artist Over Satirical Art Book
Last December, artist and comedian Miriam Elia raised funds on Kickstarter to publish the first edition of a satirical book she had written with her brother, Ezra. Called We Go to the Gallery, the book is a riff on what's popularly known in the UK as the "Peter and Jane" series. But shortly after th
Art
Laboring Over Walead Beshty's Bodies
LOS ANGELES — Walead Beshty’s solo exhibition at Regen Projects, Selected Bodies of Work, claims to “address bodies and labor as they are rendered visible in or on the art object.” Where and what are these bodies and labor?
Art
A Perspectival Shift at Art Dubai 2014
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Shopping, real estate, luxury, and massive scale are the things most people expect to find in Dubai, but one thing that this city affords you that may be unexpected is perspective.
Art
Documenting Indigenous Americans
LOS ANGELES — Between the years 1907 and 1930, Edward Sheriff Curtis published The North American Indian, a record of traditional Indian cultures in the United States and Canada. Curtis’ book, a landmark historical document with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt, has been digitized and his photograph
Interview
Artists Pick Artists: Carol Szymanski
The art of Carol Szymanski is based in language, bound up in the syntax of human communication, without being reduced to it. And the work is certainly conceptual.
Opinion
Every Advertising Cliché in One Video
Oh, generic, you are so meh … but what diversity of skin colors!