Books
There will always be fashion magazines that instruct readers which silk faille caftan is appropriate for lounging on a yacht over Memorial Day weekend, but what about one that traces the sartorial origins of the safety pin as an accessory?
Opinion
Remember when a local artist smashed one of Ai Weiwei's painted Han Dynasty urns in protest at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in February? Well, now, thanks to an online game called "Ai Weiwei Whoops!," anyone can be a vase dropper!
News
The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that it has completed the digitization of its entire collection of Rembrandt etchings.
Interview
CHICAGO — At Terrain Exhibitions, an artist-run space in Oak Park, Illinois, artist Karen Azarnia has created an installation consisting of a suite of banners that appear in varying light situations on the front porch of a suburban home.
Art
The Google Street View photos of Mexican police and army forces gathered on “100 mts” are raw and menacing.
Art
The Probable Trust Registry, a new work by Adrian Piper, is not an exhibit so much as an agreement.
Art
HONG KONG — More than US$1 billion of art was for sale at Art Basel Hong Kong, according to insurer AXA ART. But the fair managed to look beyond sales, and also displayed a number of serious counterweights to the frenzied acquisitive impulse.
Art
Dada: It was the mother of all revolutionary art movements, shocking in the almost mystical nihilism and concomitant absurdity that it expounded. Anti-aesthetic, anti-rational, anti-idealistic, anti-establishment, anti-literary … anti-everything it seemed!
Opinion
Eleven Play is a Japanese dance group that incorporates advanced technologies directly into their practice.
Art
PHILADELPHIA — Located in the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Quita Brodhead: Bold Strokes shines a welcome light on a painter who displayed a level of ingenuity and skill in a range of styles, one who strangely has little name recognition in the United States today.
Giveaways
Any Brooklyn art lover is probably familiar with Wagmag, the helpful guide to the borough's art spaces, and now it's time to show them your support during their annual benefit this Tuesday, May 27, 2014 from 7–9pm at Kunsthalle Galapagos (16 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn)
Art
Of the many things one might expect to see in the industrial chic gallery neighborhood of Chelsea on a Monday evening, chicken blood and guts splayed on the sidewalk is not one of them.