Interview
Stitching Not Bitching
CHICAGO — John Chaich's exhibition Queer Threads considers artworks that use craft aesthetics to reclaim, reimagine, and renegotiate previously accepted hierarchies of visual culture.
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Art
Stock Photos of the Generic Art World
I don't remember which social media link triggered my descent into the rabbit hole of art-related stock imagery on 123RF, but after a little a while I realized that I had taken the blue pill.
News
New Jersey Frank Lloyd Wright Home Is Relocating to Crystal Bridges in Arkansas
A New Jersey Frank Lloyd Wright house is relocating to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, through an acquisition announced this Wednesday.
Art
A Painter in His 80s, but Still in His Prime
Larry Poons’s recent paintings at Danese/Corey not only show him producing significant work as he approaches his eighties, but, unlike others of his age, Poons has refused to step gracefully behind his younger colleagues. He continues to work vigorously, and he has instinctively kept pace with paint
Art
The Power of Three Small Paintings
While touring a few of the many small exhibition spaces scattered throughout the city, I was pleasantly reminded that painting requires neither heroic-sized canvases nor the prestige of whitewashed airplane hangars to succeed as significant art.
Comics
Do Artists Need Pets?
Editor’s Note: This is Steven Weinberg’s fourth comic in a series that explores the life of a former Brooklyn artist who has moved to the Catskills.
Art
Constructing Abstraction at Front Room Gallery
There's no indication that Front Room Gallery's Constructing Abstraction exhibition was meant to be an optical vortex of sorts but it certainly makes for a jostling viewing experience that feels like a temperature check for the power of pattern and color in contemporary abstraction.
Opinion
Jeju Island, Land of 100 Museums
On beautiful Jeju Island in South Korea, you can see one of the longest lava tubes in the world, visit the crater of an extinct volcano, and watch a fire festival ... or you can stop in at the Museum of Sex and Health, the World Seashell Museum, and the Teddybear Safari. Your call.
News
UC Press Makes 700 Books Free Online, Incl. Important Art Titles
The University of California's storied academic imprint is making freely available online 700 titles published between 1984 and 2004, Open Culture has reported.
Opinion
Nuclear Wintour at the Metropolitan Museum
It’s clear that money is the ticket to fame and success in the world of culture, even — OK, maybe especially — if you’re not an artist. Cue the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renaming of the newly renovated, soon-to-be-opened Costume Institute as the Anna Wintour Costume Center.
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.
Announcement
School of Visual Arts Presents "Home Front" Exhibition
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