News
The fight to obtain resale royalties for visual artists may be gaining momentum thanks to the newly introduced American Royalties, Too (ART) Act of 2014, but the major auction houses are determined to stop it.
Art
Hey, New Yorkers, you're going to love this! Londoners and Berliners already knew about the underground Lost Lectures events, but now New Yorkers are about to get their first taste of the series that hosts enchanting talks from secret locations on the worlds of art, science, literature, music, dance
News
Yesterday saw the release of a single from Jay Electronica, the second this month from the elusive London-based rapper. This latest song features Jay Z, who deploys his verses to respond to a comment Drake made about his Picasso proclivities in a Rolling Stone profile last month.
Art
LOS ANGELES — Non-celebrities are more innovative with the selfie because all eyes are not (yet) on them.
Art
Suffering from inner ear problems possibly related to the chemicals in the black-and-white photographic process, and urged further by the extinction of Kodak film, Jed Devine has turned to (gasp!) digital, and what's more, to color. He might as well be working in a different medium altogether.
Opinion
This week, the Oxford comma debate, artists and being liked, science and bisexuality, longform on Twitter, best pizza in New York, and much much more.
Opinion
On Thursday, the New York Times published a large pull-out section, Museums, which included an article on the attempts various institutions have made at "Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons."
Music
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Beck, 2NE1, Eric Church, and St Vincent.
Art
Regrets — the collective title of Jasper Johns’s most recent series of paintings, drawings, and prints — is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (March 15–September 1, 2014). The inspiration for the series was a ripped, crumpled and stained photograph of Lucian Freud perched on
Interview
A couple of years ago, I heard Chris Martin give a talk to Columbia MFA students. Rather than the standard artist’s slide lecture, Martin brought along his conga drums and a small band, a girl wearing a metallic dress and carrying a boom box, and a couple of people who tore sheets from a book of Ita
Books
What’s stunning about Matt Kish’s illustrations for Heart of Darkness — one for every page of Joseph Conrad’s text — is how sunny they are. His modest palette comprises yellow, green, black, and white, with the occasional hit of red, orange, or blue. The novel, on the other hand, is tonally dark: se
Art
Peter Buggenhout’s massive stacks of debris hang off the wall or sprawl across the floor in a state of dereliction and collapse, monumental castoffs from a world spinning out of control.