Music
Vampire Weekend's Formal Coup
Swiping tunes from all over the place and sampling everything from hip-hop to hippie folk, the new Vampire Weekend album demands exegesis.
Latest
Art
Points of Contact: Small Works, Giant Steps
The Age of Small Things, a group show organized by the painter Chuck Webster, fills the ground floor of the Lower East Side’s Dodge Gallery, where the singular touch of the artist-curator has recast a parade of diminutive objects into an unpredictable unfolding of processes and ideas.
Art
Kill Your Phone: Artist Targets Surveillance
A Berlin-based conceptual artist artist, Aram Bartholl, has published a website to assist the craft-inclined and surveillance-averse in the making of their own Faraday cage pouch for their cellular telephones.
Art
The Political Weight and Forgotten Creativity of Postwar Polish Film
Scorsese has recently organized a series, Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, comprised of 21 pristine digital restorations of Polish films released between 1957 and 1987.
Art
Keith Sonnier's Tactile Formulations in Neon and Glass
Relatively speaking, Keith Sonnier’s interest in the connections between nature and technology has a long history. His early minimal-style, classical neons from 1968–1970 have a highly reductive, classical, nearly stoic appearance. The more recent formulations, though extravagantly tactile, were les
Art
Back When the Olympics Had Art Competitions
From 1912 to 1948, awards were given out for works of art in roughly five different categories — architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture — for artworks inspired by sport.
Art
Sochi, Arshile Gorky, and the Winter Olympics
While the world is watching the XXII Winter Olympic opening ceremonies in Sochi, Russia, I thought it would be an interesting time to explore one of the most famous mentions of Sochi in art, Arshile Gorky's Garden in Sochi series (1938–42).
News
Art Movements
UNESCO pledges support for Cairo museum, George Bellows painting leaves Virginia for London, major Islamic art loan at the Dallas Museum, missing Empire State Building art, and more from the week in art news.
Community
A View from the Easel
Studios in Canada, Croatia, and the United States.
Opinion
Waxing and Waning with the Stars in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama stands fully formed in wax towards the exit of the entertaining, kitschy tourist trap that is the Hollywood Wax Museum. Celebrity gazing is a thoroughly American tradition.
Art
An Underground Pool and More Proposed Uses for Paris Ghost Stations
A Parisian mayoral candidate is proposing turning the city's abandoned subway stations into public space.
News
Celebrated Japanese Composer Reveals Himself as a Fake
The huge news story out of Japan today is that renowned classical music composer composer Mamoru Samuragochi is a fraud. It turns out Samuragochi, who's been hailed as a genius and, because he was deaf, a contemporary Japanese Beethoven, had been hiring someone else to write his compositions for him