Art
Pat Steir cut her teeth in the 1970s and went on to become part of the fabric of the New York art world. From her quasi-conceptual paintings of that decade to the Waterfall paintings of the late '80s, Steir has long been something of a ubiquitous presence — but, like many of her generation, she also
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In the 1960s, while the United States and the Soviet Union were playing out their battle of who would make it to the moon first and so dominate the galactic skies, a former high school teacher in Zambia decided his country needed a space program.
Art
In the 1890s, Swedish playwright August Strindberg photographed the night sky without a camera or even a lens. These "Celestographs," as he called them, were both a folly and an innovative work of experimental art.
Opinion
On a stage in Washington last night, Alec Baldwin briefly un-retired from public life to introduce Maureen Dowd, who proceeded to deliver a lecture on "the arts" in "America." This grim scenario wasn't culled from an SNL bin; it was a real-live keynote commissioned by Americans for the Arts, the cro
Opinion
If real-life Jane Does and Joe Schmoes have been known to discover valuable paintings at flea markets, why not Marge and Homer Simpson?
Art
The current show at Gagosian, Portraits of America: Diane Arbus/Cady Noland is in a small gallery reachable only by walking into and through the Gagosian's Upper East Side gift shop. In order to see the exhibition, to enter the gallery, one must first pass through this physical barrier.
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The OWS Illuminator, that infamous visual symbol of Occupy Wall Street, joined Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (aka G.U.L.F.) yesterday in their fight for workers's rights on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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In a study published today, Greek and German researchers have compiled the results of looking at sunsets in 310 works from the Tate and National Gallery in London. The focus is on sunsets because they can potentially show what the climate was like in the past and help improve climate change models f
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This week, we're all about reaction GIFs in museums, imagining what would've been if Alejandro Jodorowsky directed Dune (whoa!), thinking about Obama's drones, Robert Heinecken's photography at MoMA, and your last chance to see a show by Chuck Close … and, needless to say, there's a lot more.
Opinion
Today, I did a deep dive into YouTube and pulled out this undigested grain from a pile of … well, you get the picture.
Opinion
Earlier today, the Pritzker Foundation named Shigeru Ban as its 2014 Laureate. Focusing on his work in disaster relief, the nine-person jury praised his interventions in places such as Rwanda, Haiti, India, China, Italy, and his home country of Japan — Ban is the third Japanese architect in the past
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LOS ANGELES — I didn't mean for my trip to Portland to have such a focus on race.