Opinion
Ever since their release from prison, Pussy Riot members Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova have received a lot of fawning — and sometimes weird — press and attention. But the latest Pussy Riot story, from Bloomberg News, reaches new levels of sigh-inducing absurdity.
News
In a process that at this point is approaching farce, the Detroit Free Press is reporting that City of Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr demanded yesterday that the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) contribute to a city bankruptcy fund, despite the recent $680 million intervention on the DIA's behal
Opinion
This is what art looks like on drugs.
News
Buyer of the Bacon triptych revealed, a new director for LA MOCA, record attendance for the British Museum, a tattoo history museum, and more from the week in art news.
Opinion
CHICAGO — It was the second wave of feminism. I wasn't alive yet, but I like to daydream about what it would have been like to attend those women's consciousness-raising meetings, female-centric spiritual get-togethers, heated strategic battles over how to win reproductive rights, and the space to e
Art
It's no revelation that science and art have long been linked, the curiosity about the workings of the world aligned with artistic creativity. Recently, however, there seems to be more of a movement towards connecting the two worlds into a tighter community.
News
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is proposing that the state contribute $350 million to help protect the Detroit Institute of Arts collection and Detroit's pension funds during the settlement of the city's bankruptcy, the Detroit News has reported.
Art
While searching for Orion or the Great Dipper, it's easy to forget that these constellations are just the arbitrary imaginations of astronomers drawing with stars. While Ptolemy referred to mythology for the classic constellations, later stargazers turned to their own visual culture. Up in the heave
Interview
CHICAGO — John Chaich's exhibition Queer Threads considers artworks that use craft aesthetics to reclaim, reimagine, and renegotiate previously accepted hierarchies of visual culture.
Art
I don't remember which social media link triggered my descent into the rabbit hole of art-related stock imagery on 123RF, but after a little a while I realized that I had taken the blue pill.
News
A New Jersey Frank Lloyd Wright house is relocating to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, through an acquisition announced this Wednesday.
Art
Larry Poons’s recent paintings at Danese/Corey not only show him producing significant work as he approaches his eighties, but, unlike others of his age, Poons has refused to step gracefully behind his younger colleagues. He continues to work vigorously, and he has instinctively kept pace with paint