Art
CHICAGO — The 102nd conference of the College Art Association (CAA) took place in Chicago last weekend. Thousands of art educators, museum curators, art historians, and even some actual artists gathered at the Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue for a four-day gabfest.
News
Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev, two artists participating in Berlin’s Transmediale 2014 (January 29–February 2), had an artwork summarily disabled at the festival last month because the piece uses the same technology as the National Security Agency (NSA) to hijack cell phone information.
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After years of financial crisis, Washington, DC's Corcoran Gallery of Art — the city's largest and oldest private museum, which focuses on American art — has announced a plan that would see it “cease to exist as an independent institution," the Washington Post reports.
Opinion
There comes a time when an American politician has to stand not for what's popular, but what's Right, what's True.
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In his first remarks since local artist Maximo Caminero smashed a vase in one of his artworks on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Ai Weiwei told the Associated Press that he doesn't understand or agree with the vandal's actions.
Art
For those of us who want to connect with an artistic community but resist openings with curmudgeonly fervor, there is hope: Greenpoint Gallery Night.
Art
A game currently under development uses your own anxiety to make its play increasingly horrifying as you get more scared, and it also aims to help people confront their fear.
News
Over the past few years, a tiny corner in eastern Paris known as the 13th Arrondissement has become a graffiti mecca, thanks in part to the district's town hall, which has generally supported artists. Last fall, it sponsored Tour Paris 13, a temporary temple to the spray-can that formed the largest-
Art
Would this spooky reindeer that seems to have transported from some unearthly netherworld stop you in your tracks?
News
BBC has uncovered unverified video of Miami artist Maximo Caminero destroying part of Ai Weiwei's "Colored Vases" (2006–12) artwork.
Art
In the Bay Area, where Silicon Valley's private-shuttle ingenues are a nightmare vanguard to low-income residents in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, Google has taken the unprecedented step of directly leasing office space in one such area: San Francisco's Mission district.
Art
Remember the thrill of finding the library bookmobile as a kid? I do.