Art
Art Rx
This week, you can go to a talk with cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum, visit an art exhibition where the work is on mobile phones, watch murals take shape on the streets of the Bronx, and much more.
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Conservators Uncover Collaborative Pre-Raphaelite Mural
Conservators have discovered an entire wall painting done by five Pre-Raphaelite artists in a house in a London suburb. The building, known as the Red House, was the home of Arts and Crafts movement founder William Morris between 1860 and 1865; sometime during those years, Morris completed the paint
Announcement
School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Fall 2013 Information Sessions
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Art
Detroit Fire Sale: Everything and the Kitchen Rodin
Not long ago, artist Jerry Vile placed a giant Crisco can in front of the "Monument to Joe Louis," a giant sculpture of a fist in downtown Detroit, as a lewd but hilarious and spot-on commentary on the city's bankruptcy. Local media glommed onto the stunt immediately: it was a welcome break from the
Opinion
Exit Through the Anti-Surveillance Gift Shop
The New Museum Store will be hosting a very of-the-moment Privacy Gift Shop, which will feature “stealth wear” clothing and accessories that will help you dodge — or at least make you hope you are — surveillance methods.
Interview
The Making of Urban Agitpop
CHICAGO — The self-proclaimed title of "urban pop artist" suits Margarita Korol well. As the one-woman artist/president of her creative practice, Korol blatantly straddles the world of commercial, pop, and fine art, and she's as much at home in being distributed at Zuccotti Park at Occupy Wall Stree
Comics
When I'm Super Famous…
Reality check.
Art
Selfie Criminology
CHICAGO — Last month in Halmstad, Sweden, two teenage girls took a selfie together in a bathroom while wearing balaclavas and holding a knife. They would go on to rob a fast-food restaurant making off with a mere $400 before getting arrested. The cops found that selfie on one of their smartphones. H
Art
Exposing the Secrets, Scandals, and Art of the Italian Renaissance
A time dominated by the likes of Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Botticelli, the Italian Renaissance was a stunning period for art. A new website from Oxford University Press’s Grove Art Online and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC gives an introduction to this world.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, an unexpected art forger, tintypes return to war, a phallus museum, frontline at an Egyptian protest rally, KKK in photos, the relationship of comics and poetry, and much more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Betrayal
The arts are never far from reach, even at the scuzziest of murder trials.
Art
Katherine Bradford and the Bigger Picture
I left Katherine Bradford’s first museum show, August, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine (June 29 – September 1, 2013) wishing for an in-depth survey. As it is, there are eight paintings ranging from 10 x 10 inches to 68 x 80 inches — a sumptuous sampling — exhibited in one gall