Comics
Why Are We Attracted to Troubled Artists?
Jean Seberg wasn't troubled at first, but then the Feds started to harass her for donating money to the Black Panthers.
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Art
Greyhound Abstraction and Lyrical Expressionism at the Painting Center
Bedraggled tutus? Rogue angel wings? Dried tofu twists? Though unidentifiable, the forms in David Fratkin’s five works at the Painting Center glide about with considerable self-possession.
In Brief
French President Pledges Support for Paul McCarthy's Butt Plug
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.
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Architecture Studio at SCI-Arc Proposes Hybrid Brothel/Child-Care Center
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News
The Many Uses of Rhizome's New Social Media Preservation Tool
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
Then and Now: A Conversation with Prospect.3's Franklin Sirmans
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
An Intimate Portrait of Edward Snowden
Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’s documentary about Edward Snowden, premiered to a sold-out audience at the New York Film Festival on October 10.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, a forgotten graffiti documentary, Bushwick bursting with international art, classic zombies, restoring color to ancient sculptures, and more.
Art
Under the Big Top with a Century of Art
Long before television or the internet infused daily life with spectacle, there was the circus.
Opinion
Study Confirms What We Already Know About the Importance of Artists' Authenticity
For all the studies considering how we relate to artwork and artists that are producing fascinating results, there are others that are duds.
Art
All Systems Go at Gowanus Open Studios 2014
Over the weekend, more than 300 artists opened up their work spaces to the public for the 18th annual Gowanus Open Studios.
Art
Fortuitous Paintings, Between Plan and Action
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.