Opinion
Dear Elmgreen and Dragset: How About a Sense of Humor?
“Personal vanity” — really? That’s the argument you want to make?
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Art
Bill Viola's Moving Void
PARIS — Free-floating habits are often hard to abandon. The term “video” as a definable medium — and thus “video art” — is now essentially archaic, due to the convergence of all capture technologies into post-media computer manipulated moving image/sound files.
News
Art Market Moved $66 Billion Last Year, Nearing Pre-Recession Levels
International art and antique market sales totaled €47.4 billion ($66 billion) last year, their highest sum since the pre-recession days of 2007, according to the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF)'s annual art market report, released yesterday.
Books
Pretty in Ink: Women Cartoonists in the History of Comics
Women have been involved in cartoons and comics from their beginning, although much of their work has languished in the greater story of graphic narratives. And it's not for the reasons you might think.
Books
Looking at Miami as an Architectural Powerhouse
The ninth issue of CLOG, the architecture publication that emphatically “slows things down,” focuses on the increasingly growing interest in the city of Miami and the transition from a major shipping port and vacation destination to an architectural powerhouse.
Art
Creating a National Art in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — What is Salvadoran about El Salvador is not immediately apparent in San Benito, a leafy neighborhood in the country’s capital San Salvador, where the national art museum, El Museo de Arte de El Salvador (MARTE), resides.
Art
From Outside to Inside on Chicago's North Side
CHICAGO — Outsider art is an overused, perhaps even misused, term. By a strict definition it refers to someone who makes art outside the official and even unofficial milieu in which artists get training, education, and exhibitions.
Art
Old and New Takes on the Female Nude
PORTLAND — Way back in 1989, the Guerrilla Girls called attention to the fact that less than 5% of the artists in Metropolitan Museum of Art's Modern Art sections were female, but 85% of the nude works on display featured women. Twenty-five years later, it should be common practice not to create sho
News
Elmgreen and Dragset Weigh in on Marfa Madness, Alleged Vandal Responds
Elmgreen and Dragset, the duo behind the recently defaced conceptual storefront "Prada Marfa," have condemned the vandalism in a statement to the Art Newspaper published earlier today. "It is crazy that we have come to a point in our culture where some individuals in their insane egomania, eager to
Community
A View from the Easel
Studios in Brooklyn, Chicago, Harvard, IL, Olympia, WA, and Sabbathday Lake, ME.
Art
Helicopter Funship? Alexander Ponomarev at the Marrakech Biennale
MARRAKESH, Morocco — A coach full of journalists and Biennale folk gets lost, but it is not yet cause for panic. All we know is we are somewhere between Marrakesh and the Atlas Mountains.
Poetry
"That Writing in an Empty Room Feels Like Money Wasted" and "Money Being" by Shane McCrae
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Shane McCrae for his sixth in a monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.