Art
Albert Contreras, who was born during Franklin Roosevelt’s first term as President, is a lean and cheerful man around eighty years old. He lives and works in a small apartment two blocks from the Pacific Ocean.
Art
Starting in the late 1960s, in the New York art world and internationally, Holly Solomon was for many a genuine star and maybe even, in Andy Warhol’s lexicon, a “superstar.”
Art
If you are going to read Gertrude Stein’s titanic novel The Making of Americans — the Dalkey paperback is a little over 900 pages long — why not spare your eyes and have someone read it to you? This past weekend, the magazine Triple Canopy offered to do just that.
Art
Lori Ellison’s incremental, interdependent shapes well up across the surface of a page or panel, their rhythmic patterns at once contained and unmanageable.
Art
The 2014 Super Bowl, also known as Super Bowl XLVIII, will be held on Sunday, February 2 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. What’s that got to do with art? As it turns out, there are certain distinct parallels between the high-profile athletes who patrol the chalky gridiron and the art stars who exhi
Art
LOS ANGELES — When it comes to celebrities, it doesn't make too much of a difference what's real and what's speculation, because everything is part of the same glorified fantasy space. At least, that's what Lenae Day's clever solo exhibition Prescott Pictures, at Mark Moore Gallery, would have you b
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A slew of notable figures from the world of comics has piled onto the controversy that's erupted over Scarlett Johansson's departure from Oxfam over her relationship with the controversial Israeli carbonation appliance firm SodaStream.
Opinion
The Victoria and Albert Museum published a remarkable document online today: the Nazis' inventory of "degenerate art" (entartete Kunst).
Art
This week, a new opera devoted to the bizarre tale of pop duo Milli Vanilli, WOW (aka Work-In-Progress), will conclude its short two-week run.
News
Remember the kid who climbed on the Donald Judd sculpture at the Tate Modern? Well, her parents have taken to the London Evening Standard to set the record straight. They want the world to know that their daughter, Sissi Belle, was only on the sculpture for a matter of seconds and meant no harm — an
News
Car bomb damages Cairo museum, foundry owner pleads guilt in Jasper Johns case, Hiroshi Sugimoto opens a museum, and more from the week in art news.
Art
LOS ANGELES — On Wednesday night, art critic and provocateur Dave Hickey addressed a rapt audience at a pop-up event held by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MoCA) in downtown’s Grand Central Market, part of his book tour for the recently released Pirates and Farmers: Essays on Taste.