Comics
Finding a Favorite Painter
Editor’s Note: This is Steven Weinberg’s third comic in a series that explores the life of a former Brooklyn artist who has moved to the Catskills.
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Art
Victorian Photo Tricks, From Hidden Mothers to Eyes on the Dead
Victorian photography studios loved a good illusion, whether it was to accommodate the long exposure time, or play with it.
Art
Hot Internet TVs on Frozen Winter Days
CHICAGO — Media theorist Marshall McLuhan once said that television is cool and radio is hot. This isn’t a temperature thing, but rather a classification of media based on the participation it involves from viewers.
Opinion
Walk Like an Octopus
"Octodad: Dadliest Catch" is a new video game coming out early this year that puts the player in the perspective of an octopus masquerading as a human.
Art
The Nuclei of a Material World
NEWBURGH, New York — There’s a new year out, and might it not turn on new ways of looking at questions, problems, and their solutions? Or so we’d like to think, about art as much as life.
Art
Is Wikipedia the Next Frontier for Museums?
Last year, Alexandra Thom spent ten illustrious months on Wikipedia. Thom, with a grant from the Kress Foundation, helped fill the gaps about art and culture on Wikipedia using the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the expertise of its curatorial department.
News
MoMA to Demolish American Folk Art Museum Building
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is proceeding with its controversial plans to bulldoze the American Folk Art Museum building, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Art
In Search of a Unified Color Theory
MINNEAPOLIS — It takes real brass for a painter to revisit geometric abstraction and color theory at this point in the art historical game, but Ruben Nusz is no dilettante in that generations-long conversation.
News
Bad Book News: Libraries Burned in Lebanon, Dismantled in Canada
Arsonists torched a historic and beloved library in Tripoli, while the Canadian government has gutted its science libraries.
Announcement
School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Spring 2014 Information Sessions
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Opinion
Updating Guerrilla Girls for Net Artists
Chiara Moioli is a 23-year-old artist based in Milan, Italy, and she thought it was time to update the Guerrilla Girls' "The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist" for internet artists like herself.
Art
Tom, Bob, and the Boys: Queering Midcentury Americana
LOS ANGELES — Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland are to queer pop culture something like Picasso and Braque are to 20th-century abstraction: shocking then but still rich and surprising.