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Relax, the Metropolitan Museum Isn't Instituting Mandatory Admission Fee

Last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art sent out a press release about a new lease amendment signed by the museum and the City of New York. The amendment concerns the museum's admission policy, which is currently pay what you wish, and once it was announced, all hell broke loose.

Art

Mixing Racial Messages

Starting with its title, the group exhibition War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art at Seattle's Wing Luke museum asks a provocative question: how do those seen by Americans as products of either colonial domination or subversive desire move past those categories?

Comics

Trick or…Umm…Wow

It's not the size of the pumpkin but …

Opinion

Digging Into the Layers of the Internet's Past

OAKLAND, Calif. — Digital Archaeology's icon, a pixellated flashlight, captures, in my mind, how the site works: by shining light on different corners, never quite capturing the whole.

Art

A Colossal Inflatable Robot Opens Its Arms Into a Portal

Last Saturday, a giant robot unfolded its jointed inflatable arms in Red Hook to creep out into a lattice of temporary architecture.

Art

Recreating a Victorian Funeral in Photos

There were no photographs taken of the 1865 funeral of New Yorker Seabury Tredwell, but there could have been. Artist Hal Hirshorn has imagined what this Victorian era funeral would have looked like through the photographic techniques of the day, namely salt prints.

Interview

Graffiti Legend Daze Explains the Importance of Martin Wong's Graffiti Collection

During my recent visit to Write of Passage, I encountered graffiti legend Chris "DAZE" Ellis, who allowed me to interview him about another graffiti legend, Martin Wong.

Art

Utopian Visions in the American Southwest

Due to the government shutdown earlier this month, a long awaited trip to the Southwest to see some of its most famous landmarks (Grand Canyon National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, and Lake Powell) turned into an improvised route through lesser known yet equally compelling landscapes and cultural

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Banksy's New Work Reflects on Banality of Evil, Benefits Charity [UPDATE 2]

There are three Bankys left this month, and today's work is in the window of the Housing Works thrift shop in Manhattan's Gramercy neighborhood.

Art

A Look Inside BRIC House, a New Arts Center in the Booming Downtown Brooklyn Scene

This month, multidisciplinary nonprofit BRIC opened their 40,000-square-foot space in downtown Brooklyn that unites their programs in visual art, performance, and media under one roof.

Music

Timeless Amniotic Bubble: William Basinski's Analogue Noise

William Basinski, self-described composer of “experimental electronic ambient music," played selections from his new CD Nocturnes at Issue Project Room’s Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain celebration recently held at its majestically renovated downtown Brooklyn location.

Opinion

Toward a Slower Internet

OAKLAND, Calif. — Hop on a train or bus in any major city these days and you'll no doubt see people staring at their phones. Where once it might have been a book or an empty gaze, phones have become the object of public transport riders' attentions through games, reading, tweets, emails, and what ha