Art
There's something to be said for an impeccable still life, a carefully composed scene of blooming flowers and ripe, luscious food. But there's a reason that the form's name in French is nature morte: things that don't move are either inanimate or dead. A long tradition of beauty springs from the wel
News
The saga of Detroit's bankruptcy negotiations rolls on, and the Detroit Free Press continues to have the scoop on the story. The latest: the Detroit Institute of Arts has pledged to raise $100 million over 20 years to contribute to the city's rescue.
Art
You might know how essential it is to keep your asteroid free from baobab tree infestations and how integral it is to sweep your volcanoes but still have no idea that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince was created in New York City.
Art
With strict regulations on murals only recently lifted in Los Angeles, you might think that the artists and public art facilitators who fought so hard to make murals legal again would be playing it safe to start. You would be wrong.
Interview
LOS ANGELES — Artists who work in the digital realm are increasingly gaining recognition with exhibitions, auctions, and biennials. A new artist/writer-led online magazine called NOOART: The Journal of Objectless Art seeks to further the discussion about this type of work.
Comics
It's the little things that keep me here.
Art
PARK CITY, Utah — It feels slightly unfair to label the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday after a ten-day stint, flat and underwhelming due to a lack of a breakout, buzzing, hit movie along the lines of last year’s Fruitvale Station or the preceding's Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Art
The sentiments of Bethany Cosentino from the band Best Coast float through my head whenever I view the artwork of Los Angeles–based photographer and filmmaker Alex Prager.
Art
The preservation of a natural vista in New Jersey in the face of an intruding development is moving from a local to national concern. The Palisades, that stretch of cliffs and streets viewable from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cloisters branch of medieval art, have been protected for decades fro
News
We all know the stereotype of artists being a little ... you know, different, but two researchers are now saying that if you're perceived as being eccentric, people will think you make better art.
News
Queens Library Director Thomas Galante out-earns nearly all senior public officials in New York City, including the mayor and the head of the public transit system, the New York Daily News has reported.
Books
Art history is very much a haunted field, with the specters of works obliterated, lost, hidden, or just vanished floating around it. Our visual culture is defined as much by destruction as it is by creation.