Art
"Socio-economic illumination, enabled by the evolutionary process of thought, was Beuys’ end-goal," writes Kara L. Rooney in her substantial catalogue essay for Joseph Beuys: Process 1971–1985, the small but ambitious show she's curated at the similarly disposed Rooster Gallery on Orchard Street.
Art
CHICAGO — Monica Rezman makes drawings and paintings of hair. She used to work in the fashion industry, and when she came over to the slower visual world of drawing and painting, she spent a while making careful transcriptions of unraveled wigs that resulted in abstract linear patterns.
Art
Anyone who's witnessed a massive flock of starlings soar through the sky has likely been struck by the surprising geometric shapes formed by the crush of wings. New York–based photographer Richard Barnes spent time observing some of the largest starling flocks in the world over a Rome suburb, and th
Opinion
There are so many things to say about the New York Times Magazine cover for this coming weekend, which features Hillary Clinton's face stretched and wrinkled and turned into a planet.
News
Ah, the promise of a new online art platform. So young, so fresh, so full of ideas about the future. And yet, so muddled about the present as to take an artist's work and make prints of it without permission.
News
When you look at a painting and feel that somehow it was made just for a person like you, it might actually be true. New neuroscience research shows that deep feeling of personal resonance from some works of art is linked to your brain's sense of self.
Announcement
Artist Laleh Khorramian and Andrew Hudson, head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Water and Ocean Governance Programme, discuss art as a catalyst for global conversations within the context of water and ocean sustainability issues in this special talk [http://engine.nectarads.com/r?
Performance
Performance Space 122’s COIL Festival is one of a number of imaginative theater festivals to descend on New York City each winter.
News
Following closely in the digital footsteps of the University of California Press, the Getty Center in Los Angeles yesterday made 250 of its art books freely available online.
News
When it emerged a little over a week ago that Rizzoli's iconic 57th Street store was to be demolished to make way for luxury towers, the inevitable nostalgia was almost immediately tempered by calls for the preservation of the historic structure.
Art
SAN FRANCISCO — In Stereo, an exhibition of new works by Bay Area-artist Chris Fraser at Highlight Gallery, plays with the ways our eyes perceive space.
News
Stories of Italy struggling to save its cultural heritage amid governmental dysfunction and a lack of funds are commonplace these days. But tales of the Italians getting creative with their efforts have been springing up too, and a piece from NPR yesterday points to another example: a program called