Art
In his dismissal of Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938 — the recently opened retrospective of René Magritte (1898-1967) at the Museum of Modern Art — the New York Times’ Holland Cotter cites the ubiquity of the Belgian surrealist’s images and the relative paucity of insight to be glean
News
Though 3rd Ward had been a pillar of the Brooklyn creative community for seven years, the Philadelphia branch — also shuttered this week — had only opened in April 2013, and the devastation to the burgeoning community of members and employees has been just as bad.
Opinion
Yesterday's first digital art auction at Phillips may have just taken the crown for being the most memorable contemporary art auction for me since Damien Hirst's auction at Sothebys in London the day Lehman collapsed in 2008. I was there. It was wild. So was yesterday.
Performance
Sitting in the audience for the performance of Ann Hirsch’s "Playground" at the New Museum last week, two things came to mind: one, that Hirsch had managed to trick a bunch of art school kids and fans of her often web-based art into coming to a very conventional theater production; and two, that the
Art
Josh Kline’s work takes the viewer into the uncanny valley. The two centerpieces of his exhibition QUALITY OF LIFE at 47 Canal show actors playing Kurt Cobain and Whitney Houston, interviewed as if they were alive today.
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Opinion
Remember that find by Walking and Typing yesterday? Well, it turns out that was today's Banksy and it's parked in the Meatpacking District.
News
The last chance for 5Pointz survival lost, DIA looks at moving to state control, Martin Creed's first retrospective, lost Da Vinci possibly found, Norman Rockwell painting definitely lost, and more...
Art
A New Orleans project that started in 2011 as an experiment with musical architecture is planning a return, although this time with roving ramshackle structures that can eventually become a permanent soundscape in the city.
Art
Since Jodi Cobb joined National Geographic in 1977 as the magazine's first female staff photographer, more and more women photographers have contributed images to the publication in essays on human rights, conflict zones, the minds of teenagers, epidemics, life in the remote corners of the world, an
News
Step into a restaurant in Korea, and sometimes in Koreatowns, and you'll find a simple button next to your table. Press the button, and the waiter or waitress shows up. It's an elegant solution to a perennial problem: getting the attention of extremely busy people.
Opinion
France has passed a law meant to protect independent bookstores and stop the monolith of Amazon from taking over book sales in the country.
Art
The newly open-the-public Timothy Leary papers at the New York Public Library is a fascinating trove.