Art
Soldiers' Bedrooms Become Makeshift Memorials
Tomorrow, New Yorkers will flock to the newly opened National September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan to remember the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost on that day.
Latest
Art
Pawel Althamer's Family Secrets
BERLIN — Here in northern Europe the leaves are turning colors at an alarming rate. In the US, Labor Day came and went. But in Greece it’s still summer-summer — meaning there’s still time to visit the island of Hydra and see Polish artist Pawel Althamer’s rather anti-spectacular exhibition at the De
Interview
Midcentury Expressionist Drama, Novelized
PARIS — I recently met in my studio the writer Jake Lamar, a New York ex-pat living in Paris, and spoke to him about his new novel, Postérité (The original English title is "Posthumous"), that will be published today in French by Rivages.
Art
Making Aging Livable: New York's Senior Center Artists-in-Residence Program
"There is a huge boom in the elderly population, not just in New York City but everywhere — we're all living longer," Kristin Sakoda said by way of introducing the importance of programs that address the "cultural, social, and economic life" of the aged.
Art
Exposing the Blood and Guts of Hollywood’s Teen Girl Fantasy
LOS ANGELES — Laura Parnes’s four-disk video series Blood and Guts in Hollywood exposes the idealized teenage dream for what it is: A boring, vapid fantasy of "love" that is marketed and sold to an audience of young dreamers searching for their soulmate in the illusions of silver screens and false i
Art
Governors Island Art Fair Lodges in New York Harbor's Military Ruins for the Month
Among peeling paint and creaking floors, the Governors Island Art Fair returned this past weekend to the former military homes of Colonels Row out in the New York Harbor.
Art
A Documentary for the Witch of Kings Cross, Australia's Persecuted Occult Artist
Filmmaker Sonia Bible considers Rosaleen Norton "the most persecuted artist in Australian history." With a new documentary, she's hoping to set a more accurate record of the life of woman who in the 1940s and 50s scandalized the country with her occult art, and bold sexuality.
Art
ArtRx LA
This week, we have a seldom seen documentary starring LA itself, early digital art from the 1960s, the last chance to see proto-PoMo painter John Altoon's LACMA retrospective, and lots more.
Art
Making Sense of the Legal Battle Over Vivian Maier’s Artworks
A legal battle has ensued over who has legal rights to an artist’s photographic negatives.
Art
The Folly of Performance
Performance art doesn't have to be so heavy. It can be light, like diving head-first into the trash, in Tamar Ettun's case.
Interview
Helping Syrian Filmmakers Tell the Human Narratives of Conflict
Among the films produced by one Syrian NGO: one of the first documentaries to look at the early effects that ISIS was having on residents of eastern Syria.
Comics
The Essential First Step in Any Creative Process
All you need is a giant slingshot!