Opinion
My Gold-Surfaced Cappuccino
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Silence is gold.
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Art
The Redemption of Ron Athey
LOS ANGELES — Twenty years after performing at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Ron Athey has come a long way from art world pariah to celebrated performance artist.
Comics
The Art of Maple Syrup
I helped our neighbors make maple syrup last week, which got me thinking …
Art
Auteurs Go Wild
That protean, motley preoccupation sometimes called film theory has shown many faces over the years. But before today’s engagements with the medium’s correspondence with digital technologies and television, there was auteur theory.
Art
Doug Wheeler Builds a Horizon of Light
Coming from the deserts of New Mexico, where he lives in Sante Fe, Doug Wheeler’s visits to New York, seldom and auspicious, are greeted with the sort of awe usually reserved for mystics.
Interview
Thank God It's Not Abstract: A Ridykeulous Interview
ST. LOUIS — Nicole Eisenman and A.L. Steiner’s current exhibition Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like™, at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, is a heady riot of neon, smut, Sharpie scribbles, editorial angst, lesbian supremacist propaganda, and impassioned ink-on-pape
Art
Kara Walker Lands in Oregon
EUGENE, Oregon — The Black Portlanders, a project initiated by Intisar Abioto that focuses on the black people of Portland documenting one another, recently posted an open letter asking for help raising $15,000 to keep alive their project.
Art
US Museums Acquire Nine Works by Robert Rauschenberg
Nine major works by Pop Art legend Robert Rauschenberg entered the collections of six major museums in the United States this month.
News
Cariou v. Prince Settled Out of Court
A settlement announced yesterday marks the end of the five-year legal saga between photographer Patrick Cariou and appropriation artist Richard Prince, the New York Times reported.
Opinion
Man Breaks Statue in Quest for Selfie
It's one thing for people to take selfies with works of art; it's another to climb on the art in order to get a photo and break it in the process.
Community
A View from the Easel
Studios in Boston, Brooklyn, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and Manhattan.
Art
Thinking About Art Practice and the Role of Compromise
What happens when an artist’s inclinations towards her/his work conflict with her/his ability to sell and keep making it?