Opinion
Reexamining Picasso's Politics
Legend has it that Pablo Picasso was a lifelong Communist. But, as it turns out, it was more complicated than that.
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Opinion
Ask Me Anything: Reddit's (Very) Tentative Embrace by the Cultural Elite
Yesterday, The Paris Review did a Reddit AMA, which by now is a reliable station on the digital PR circuit.
Art
Your Easy Guide to Greenpoint Gallery Night
Our guide to this Friday's Greenpoint Gallery Night … featuring 15 galleries across North Brooklyn.
Art
Why Was a Major Outsider Art Survey 91.3% Male?
LONDON — A major survey of outsider art, Hayward Gallery's Alternative Guide to the Universe closed on August 26. It was a show featuring many of outsider art's most prolific practitioners of the last several decades, all under the aegis of providing institutional space for "alternative" modes of kn
Opinion
The Literal Floating World of Video Games in Ukiyo-E Art
OAKLAND, California — Ukiyo-e Heroes, a new series by American artists Jed Henry and Dave Bull, continues the ukiyo-e form with video game characters.
Interview
Toward a New Queer Theology
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — With his wild-man beard, piratical silver earrings, heavy-rimmed specs and abiding interest in the occult, it wasn’t clear just how an unscheduled interview with sexagenarian AA Bronson would unfold.
News
LA's Murals to Return with New Ordinance
OAKLAND, Calif. — For the past ten years, LA's murals have been an endangered species.
Comics
Context Is Everything
It looks so much better here …
Art
The Cacophony Society and Adventures in Urban Voids
It's an exciting moment for a certain type of person when you find you are not a solitary traveler into the voids of the city.
News
After Nearly a Century, Wax Cylinder Music Gets a New Release
Good news obsolete technology fans, the first cylinder music release in nearly a century is out today.
Art
Deep Blue vs. Kasparov: Machine's Triumph Over Man
The 1997 six-game match between Garry Kasparov — arguably the top chess player of all time — and IBM's Deep Blue computer was an epochal moment, our blockbuster modernization of John Henry against the train. But it's not obvious fodder for theater.
Opinion
No Comment: Claes Oldenburg or Real Life?
According to Gothamist, a New Jersey man "recently decided to take his creativity to a whole new caliber … "