Opinion
Comic Sans Gets a Makeover, and You Can Download It Free
Well, lovers of Comic Sans rejoice!
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Germany and Munich Art Hoarder Announce Agreement on Nazi-Era Trove
The German government and the octogenarian who last fall was discovered to be hiding a trove of nearly 1,500 Nazi-era artworks have reached an agreement about the future of the collection.
Art
An Abstract Painter's Mixed-In Tensions
Any painter who doesn't find painting difficult should be treated with suspicion. Managing real challenges, as opposed to affected ones, should be the root of an artist's style, by choice or by consequence. The work of Logan Grider has always struck me as bound up in tensions that are either invited
News
Giving a Face to the Victims of Drone Killings
A union of hashtag activism, street art, and drones hardly portends an outcome of substance, but a rare exception has surfaced in Pakistan, where a collective has unveiled an athletic-field-sized poster meant to attract the attention of American drones operating in the country's volatile Khyber Pakh
Art
A 19th-Century Map of the Geology Hidden Beneath NYC Streets
There was much rejoicing among cartography lovers when the New York Public Library's Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division recently released over 20,000 maps for free use.
Announcement
Archives of the Collective: Selected Works by Pratt Second-Year MFA Candidates
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Art
This Is Your Selfie Reality
LOS ANGELES — What’s the best thing about selfies right now? That they are everywhere, and there’s nothing you can do to stop them. According to the internet, selfies are both the cause and effect of many social issues today.
Books
Collaging Imagery from the Delirious Confusion of Finnegans Wake
James Joyce's 1939 Finnegans Wake notoriously starts out with this linguistic monstrosity thundering the fall of Adam and Eve …
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the Bechdel test's impact on movie revenue, the 17-year-old who slept with Ginsburg and Burroughs, Sotheby's redesign, internet as propaganda tool, LACMA and Tinder, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Limit
What does the art market have in common with Major League Baseball and the Supreme Court? Spending limits are for suckers.
Art
Joanne Greenbaum’s Beautiful Monsters
Joanne Greenbaum is hellbent on making each painting different from the ones preceding it. This was immediately evident when I walked into her first exhibition with Rachel Uffner Gallery, where she is inaugurating the gallery’s new large space with eight large paintings, all 90 x 80 inches.
Art
Broadcast Muse: Liz Magic Laser's Bystander
The script for "Bystander," Liz Magic Laser’s performance at The Kitchen, consists principally of two types of statements about current events — the personal and the reportorial.