Art
Bloody Bloody Boudoir Ladies: Turning Kitsch Ceramics Into Horror
Edinburgh-based artist Jessica Harrison transforms the collectible ceramic ladies that populate grandmothers' china cabinets into spectacles of gore.
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An Open Source Map for Conservation
LOS ANGELES — One of the loveliest sites on the web belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, a database of all of UNESCO's World Heritage sites, from famous locales like Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the lesser-known underground river of Puerto-Princesa, Philippines.
Art
What's the Most Beautiful Sound You've Ever Heard?
What's the most beautiful sound you can think of? The Most Beautiful Sound in the World competition was recently launched to pit these different sonic captures against each other.
Art
Feeling Unhinged in Context
MIAMI BEACH — Walking into Context, Art Miami’s sister fair devoted to emerging artists and contemporary work, the overarching trend was immediately clear: surrealism, absurdity, art that’s slightly unhinged.
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Untitled Art Fair 2013: Nature Gone Wrong
MIAMI BEACH — In the cycles of art fairs, there are some that are going up and others that are on a slow decline to what seems like oblivion. In the former category is Untitled, which debuted last year and has since generated a lot of buzz because of its South Beach beachfront location (which was co
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The Twilight Performance of an Aging Queen
MIAMI BEACH — Amidst the overabundance, overproduction, and overstimulation of the spectacle that is the Miami art fairs, it becomes progressively harder by the day to recollect what I have seen or even what I have liked. And yet, the thing about authenticity is that it can persist, despite an envir
Opinion
Today in 'End of History': Obama Snaps Funeral Selfie at Mandela Memorial
At left, via the Agence France-Presse, is a photograph of President Barack Obama, of the United States, taking a "funeral selfie" with David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Helle Thorning Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark.
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Google Opens Its Online Exhibition Interface to All
Today, Google launched Google Open Gallery, which opens its online exhibition tools to any artist, museum, archive, or gallery.
Comics
Questions Artists Ask Themselves
Is art meaning?
Art
Art Rx
This week, New York brings you video games, emojis, and Planet of the Apes — pop culture galore.
News
Where's the Money? US Arts and Culture Economy By the Numbers
An unprecedented survey of the role of the arts in the larger economy, last week's breakdown of the GDP contribution of America's creative industries in 2011 is illuminating and depressing, if not entirely surprising in its conclusions.
Opinion
Photographing Secret Places
If you're unfamiliar with the work of Trevor Paglen, then I would suggest you change that right now through this excellent short video (08:59) from the Creators Project.