News
In a study published today, Greek and German researchers have compiled the results of looking at sunsets in 310 works from the Tate and National Gallery in London. The focus is on sunsets because they can potentially show what the climate was like in the past and help improve climate change models f
Art
This week, we're all about reaction GIFs in museums, imagining what would've been if Alejandro Jodorowsky directed Dune (whoa!), thinking about Obama's drones, Robert Heinecken's photography at MoMA, and your last chance to see a show by Chuck Close … and, needless to say, there's a lot more.
Opinion
Today, I did a deep dive into YouTube and pulled out this undigested grain from a pile of … well, you get the picture.
Opinion
Earlier today, the Pritzker Foundation named Shigeru Ban as its 2014 Laureate. Focusing on his work in disaster relief, the nine-person jury praised his interventions in places such as Rwanda, Haiti, India, China, Italy, and his home country of Japan — Ban is the third Japanese architect in the past
Art
LOS ANGELES — I didn't mean for my trip to Portland to have such a focus on race.
Art
The mythology of the Beatles, like all mass phenomena, extends far beyond the primary realm of their music — even the group's most tangential interests and dalliances carry a profound aura of cultural history.
News
The fight to obtain resale royalties for visual artists may be gaining momentum thanks to the newly introduced American Royalties, Too (ART) Act of 2014, but the major auction houses are determined to stop it.
Art
Hey, New Yorkers, you're going to love this! Londoners and Berliners already knew about the underground Lost Lectures events, but now New Yorkers are about to get their first taste of the series that hosts enchanting talks from secret locations on the worlds of art, science, literature, music, dance
News
Yesterday saw the release of a single from Jay Electronica, the second this month from the elusive London-based rapper. This latest song features Jay Z, who deploys his verses to respond to a comment Drake made about his Picasso proclivities in a Rolling Stone profile last month.
Art
LOS ANGELES — Non-celebrities are more innovative with the selfie because all eyes are not (yet) on them.
Art
Suffering from inner ear problems possibly related to the chemicals in the black-and-white photographic process, and urged further by the extinction of Kodak film, Jed Devine has turned to (gasp!) digital, and what's more, to color. He might as well be working in a different medium altogether.
Opinion
This week, the Oxford comma debate, artists and being liked, science and bisexuality, longform on Twitter, best pizza in New York, and much much more.