Film
Invisible Cities: Matthew Barney's Blindspot
Let’s look past the globules, barnacles, and goo. At its heart, Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament is a film about white, male America’s failure to comprehend urbanism.
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Opinion
People Lose Their Minds Over Obama's Art History Apology
US President Obama's apology to University of Texas at Austin art history professor Ann Collins Johns has created a frenzy of media coverage but also some inexplicably strange responses.
Announcement
Mexico City Artists Discuss Their Work in New Interview Series from Kadist Art Foundation
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Art
The Possibilities of Paper: Czech Pop-Up Book Art
The innovative paper engineering of an overlooked Czech artist is currently filling the second floor gallery of the Grolier Club. The Upper East Side bibliophilic society opened an exhibition of pop-up books and other paper art by Vojtěch Kubašta last month, but for a long time the artist's work cou
Art
Art and Liquor in Greenpoint
Chelsea openings, for the most part, are what they are: slightly glamorous events drawing fashionable crowds that are held in lovely, spacious galleries that tend to show predictable, big-name artists.
Art
Embattled Curators and Job-Hunting Profs: 2014 CAA Conference
CHICAGO — The 102nd conference of the College Art Association (CAA) took place in Chicago last weekend. Thousands of art educators, museum curators, art historians, and even some actual artists gathered at the Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue for a four-day gabfest.
News
Transmediale Festival Shuts Down NSA Imitators
Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev, two artists participating in Berlin’s Transmediale 2014 (January 29–February 2), had an artwork summarily disabled at the festival last month because the piece uses the same technology as the National Security Agency (NSA) to hijack cell phone information.
News
End of the Corcoran? New Plan Would Dissolve the Gallery
After years of financial crisis, Washington, DC's Corcoran Gallery of Art — the city's largest and oldest private museum, which focuses on American art — has announced a plan that would see it “cease to exist as an independent institution," the Washington Post reports.
Opinion
Marco Rubio Slams Obama's Art History Apology
There comes a time when an American politician has to stand not for what's popular, but what's Right, what's True.
News
Ai Weiwei Responds to Vase Dropper
In his first remarks since local artist Maximo Caminero smashed a vase in one of his artworks on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Ai Weiwei told the Associated Press that he doesn't understand or agree with the vandal's actions.
Art
A Gallery Night for People Who Hate Openings
For those of us who want to connect with an artistic community but resist openings with curmudgeonly fervor, there is hope: Greenpoint Gallery Night.
Art
Using Biofeedback Technology for a Game That Knows Your Fear
A game currently under development uses your own anxiety to make its play increasingly horrifying as you get more scared, and it also aims to help people confront their fear.