Art
Wonder World, or Against the New Universal Exhibition
PARIS — Theatre of the World, currently on view at La Maison Rouge, raises the thorny issue of the individual and particular against the homogeneous collective.
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Watching the Selfie Olympics
CHICAGO — The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, will begin on February 7, but the selfie olympics have already gone viral.
News
Algorithm Predicts Literary Success
Computer scientists at Stony Brook University have developed an algorithm that predicts, with an accuracy reaching 84%, the "success" of a novel.
Art
You're Just Some Weirdo
LOS ANGELES — Every day, a weirdo is born. Some people feel as if they have the word terminally painted across their foreheads and need no reminders of their weirdness. Others visit artist Kristin Calabrese's studio — as I did right after getting off a plane in Los Angeles, a city I’d never before b
Books
Photographs from a Decade of Motherhood
In photographer Elinor Carucci's new monograph Mother, she chronicles nine years of motherhood, from the tentative expectancy of pregnancy to the whir of raising children in the bustle of New York City.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, how the government is accessing your data, a Richard Serra takedown, the failure of open concept office space, when a tweet becomes an ad, US military street art in Afghanistan, people who prefer modern art over ancient art, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Freeze
"Polar Vortex" — nothing else needs to be said.
Art
How To Look Indifference in the Eye: New Work by Dan Douke
I am always dazzled by at least one work in a Dan Douke exhibition, and often more.
Books
Jed Perl’s Magicians & Charlatans: In An Ailing Art World, the Best Discoveries Can Stir the Soul
As the American critic Jed Perl points out in his new book, Magicians & Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture (Eakins Press Foundation, 2013), a collection of essays about subjects in the fields of Renaissance, modern and contemporary art, today the forces of “art as money” have vanquished those of
Art
At Play in the Fields of Paint: Russell Tyler’s “Analogue Future”
There’s something about Russell Tyler’s new paintings that just shouldn’t work. Elements reappear, with minor adjustments, from canvas to canvas, suggesting that the artist assembled his compositions according to a set of rules instead of entering each new process free of preconceptions. And yet, de
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In Historic Vote, Cooper Union Board Ratifies Tuition for 2014
In an email to the Cooper Union community sent a little after 8pm EST, board of trustees chairman Richard S. Lincer conceded that "tuition remains the only realistic source of new revenue in the near future."
Art
Rediscovering Salvatore Emblema
The story of artist Salvatore Emblema (1929–2006) says a great deal about the American century and how it inspired and dominated the narrative of art history.