Art
Everything looks different from the water — even an art fair. Sitting in Marie Lorenz's rowboat yesterday evening, gliding along the edge of Randall's Island, the curving white tent that houses Frieze New York seemed distant and innocuous.
Art
The first thing you see when you enter Collective design fair at the Moynihan Station Skylight space is a mini-exhibition of work by Hella Jongerius, organized by Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell of design think tank Moss Bureau. The presentation includes a group of stuffed “Quilted Vases” (2006) b
News
Amazon gets a white-backdrop photography patent, Delaware Art Museum announces first art at auction, Putin bans profanity, and more from the week in art news.
Announcement
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Art
After serving as a Romanian war photographer from World War I through 1920, Costica Acsinte settled in Slobozia in the south of the country and set up a studio called Foto Splendid Acsinte. There he proceeded to document the surrounding community in over 5,000 images.
Art
Some dating wisdom has it that the third date is make or break, the one when you decide whether or not to move forward. This is the third year of the Frieze New York art fair, and I'm just not sure I see us having a future together.
Books
Digitization may be increasing the accessibility to the history of literature, but there is something lost about the book as a physical object.
Art
Alien Sex Club, an installation by John Walter set for the University of Westminster's Ambika P3 opening in July 2015, will seek to promote the idea of a safe, informative physical space to act as a buffer between the smart phone dating app and the physical experience of a sexual encounter.
Books
Back in the 1860s, the capital of the United States was glimpsing two visions of its country: one of brutality, and one of beauty. The latter was captured by Carleton Watkins in his photographs of an untouched wilderness in the West.
News
Leading arts and tech nonprofit Eyebeam has announced plans to move into a space in Brooklyn's Industry City for roughly three years before relocating to an as-yet unbuilt space in downtown Brooklyn. The organization has also announced the recipients of its new two-year 2014/2015 Eyebeam Fellowships
Announcement
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Comics
Before moving to the Catskills, I had a hard time imagining being a professional artist anywhere but an urban environment.