Art
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York is holding the first major survey of art by Anishinaabe artists in the Great Lakes region, with over a hundred works from artists both contemporary and ancient, all linked by the 10,000-year history of human settlement in the area.
Interview
The art of Eftihis Patsourakis is austere and humane, economic in means and layered in reflection. Cigarette ends, thrift shop paintings, Post-it notes (items only a curious nomad, or archeologist from the future, would find important) become the foundational elements of his work.
Art
Casa de Costa's new location on the Upper East Side takes over the two floors of a 19th century carriage house secreted behind an apartment building.
Art
History has it that over the past two decades, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has gentrified beyond recovery and its flourishing art scene picked up and gone elsewhere. This may be partly true, but not entirely. There are still artists and galleries in Williamsburg.
Books
The story of Arman Manookian, one of Hawaii's foremost modernist painters of the 1920s and '30s, is full of mystery and sadness.
Art
In the course of writing The Rise and Fall of Artists’ SoHo (Routledge), I read several earlier books about lofts and artists in lower Manhattan. The most embarrassing by far, in spite of some research worth crediting, was Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change.
News
A multidisciplinary group at Carnegie Mellon University has recovered three new digital images produced by Andy Warhol in 1985. The files were found on "Amiga floppy disks stored in the archives collection of The Andy Warhol Museum," according to a news release.
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Q: When you're a human rights activist recently released from prison in Russia and advocating for reform there, where's the best place to speak to get your message across? A: An art fair!
Comics
Many an evening I've been tempted to call my pizza place back in Brooklyn.
Art
The archival project Monoskop.org has posted the entirety of Alan Riddell's Typewriter Art (1975), an out-of-print volume collecting typographical artwork made between the 1890s and the 1970s.
Art
On the afternoon that I visited the 2014 Whitney Biennial, I caught sight of a high school group being led through the exhibition by an engaging young arts educator. I slowed down as our paths converged on three large ceramic sculptures by the Los Angeles–based artist Sterling Ruby. Each one is roug
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle — also called, at various times, the Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat and simply the Brooklyn Eagle — covered the goings on of the city and borough of Brooklyn for over a century. The Brooklyn Public Library's local history division, the Brooklyn Collection, has team