Art
One of the hardest steps in surmounting homelessness is in the transition from a shelter to a permanent home, and while many ideas for pop-up temporary housing are manifested in designer dreams, few of those architectural solutions have found widespread implementation.
News
Smuggled antiquities have surfaced everywhere, from midtown Manhattan galleries to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. On January 13, an agreement to prevent looted Chinese antiquities from entering the United States was quietly renewed for another five years, though controversy has now emerged over
Guide
Cultural omnivores will be descending on New York this week in order to partake in the art banquet that is the Armory Arts Week and the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
News
The archives of Partisan Review, the totemic 20th-century journal of politics and the arts, have finally been fully digitized.
Art
It wasn’t technically on the list for Beat Nite, but the door was open and the color palette drew me in: orange-y reds, pinkish purples and lavender, warm, welcoming blues and turquoise. The artworks in Space Heater, the group show currently on view at Harbor Gallery, match incredibly well — not usu
News
This sweatshirt, listed today in a Christie's online auction, was allegedly hand-painted by Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1979 and 1980.
Art
PORTLAND, Oregon — The 2014 Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres knows a selfie moment when she sees it. In her second year orchestrating celebrity moments the selfie makes its move into Hollywood in a way that's far more serious than James Franco's self-involved ponderings or Justin Bieber's epic adolescenc
News
New York State public schools administrators aren't taking art seriously, according to a new report filed by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli last Tuesday.
Art
Through subtle portraiture and roaring scenes of the Jazz Age, painter Archibald J. Motley Jr. chronicled the diversity and dynamism of the African-American community during the early decades of the 20th century.
Art
NEW ORLEANS — Considering that one of Mel Chin's most audacious works appeared before an audience of millions on network television over a two-year period, it's curious that he's not more of a household name.
Art
Oscar Wilde was suspicious of men in suits. He once famously remarked that "with an evening coat and a white tie, even a stock broker can gain a reputation for being civilized."
Opinion
SAN FRANCISCO — At San Francisco's annual Dickens Fair, I learned about the work of Darren Way, whose Dangerous Puppets creations feature fanciful characters and bizarre imagery bordering on the fantastical and grotesque.