Art
Edmund V. Gillon's Vision of 1970s and '80s New York
Sometimes it seems like troves of old photos of New York City turn up online every other day. But we still ogle them because ... well, what can we say? We heart old NYC porn.
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Announcement
School of Visual Arts Presents "Home Front" Exhibition
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Interview
Reviving the Spirit of an Artist Through His Personal Collection
In the story of postwar American art, the middle of the country typically gets short shrift. The work coming out of Chicago in the 1960s and ’70s was gleefully weird, darkly surreal, and mostly figurative; for that, it was mostly overlooked, along with its practitioners. One of the biggest and most
News
To Stop the Illegal Ivory Trade, You Have to Stop the Art
China's destruction of some 6.1 tons of seized ivory earlier this month may have seemed like a small dent in a country where around 70% of the illegal trade is concentrated, but it was an encouraging sway in the right direction.
Opinion
Kung Fu Grandmas in Kenya
Kung Fu Grandma, a new short documentary by London-based director Jeong-One Park, explores a group of elderly Kenyan women who have studied kung fu to protect themselves from rapists.
News
National Endowment for the Arts Skirts Budget Slash in Appropriations Bill
The National Endowment for the Arts is slated to receive a budget of $146.02 million per the 2014 Omnibus Appropriations bill released by Congress late yesterday. The figure is down from the Obama administration's proposed $154.47 million and roughly on par with 2013's allocation of $146.26 million.
Art
A Tale of Redemption Conserved on a Prison's Crumbling Walls
Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia was designed to look like the most foreboding of fortresses on the outside, and a cathedral-like place of reflection on the inside.
Interview
The Art of 3D Printing
CHICAGO — For artist Tom Burtonwood, the transition into 3D scanning and printing was as natural as popping food into a microwave rather than settling for cold leftovers.
Opinion
Smithsonian Brings Self-Taught Art to the Masses with James Castle
Using spit and soot, artist James Castle communicated with the world. Castle, who was deaf, spent his life in Idaho, using art as his main outlet; he never signed, spoke, or wrote in any direct way.
News
Anarchy in the UK Art Market
All is not well in Albion, where the business of art is apparently getting ever more lugubrious.
News
Black-Hooded Protesters Stage Anti-Guantanamo Action at National Museum of American History
On January 11, marking the 12th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, activists from the group Witness Against Torture commandeered the lobby of the National Museum of American History.
Comics
How Is An Artist's Eye Different?
Maybe art is a kind of superpower.