Opinion
If you follow the news these days, you might be worried about the American government and the secrecy and ruthlessness with which it has been conducting itself. You might be concerned about the National Security Agency (NSA) reading your email, or dismayed by Bradley Manning's 35-year sentence, or h
Opinion
Centuries before the British Mandate and the Butcher of Baghdad, today's ravaged Iraqi capital was thriving as the largest city in the world. According to The Art Newspaper, a new master plan spearheaded by the Iraqi Ministry of Youth and Sport is aiming to tap into this historical legacy with some
News
Samsung's #LiveInTheMoment Instagram photo contest has been mired in controversy since a winning photograph was discovered to be the image of another photographer that was altered by flipping, cropping, and adding a filter.
Interview
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Raúl Gonzalez was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up going back and forth between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, México. Juárez was, for a time, one of the most violent cities in the world. Drug cartel violence killed thousands while hundreds of women were abducted and murdered, or
Books
Staffan Ahrenberg's acquisition of Cahiers d'Art a few years ago was a nostalgic purchase. Ahrenberg, the scion of a prominent Swedish collecting family, had his memory jogged on a walk past the publication's offices in Paris, and recalled seeing its founder's name, Christian Zervos, amid the spines
News
Some things are as old as civilization as we know it: agriculture, government, written language, a reverence for cats, and gaming. As further proof of that last one, Turkish archeologists have unearthed what they think are the oldest board game tokens ever found.
Interview
CHICAGO — Somewhere in a Neverland-type realm located outside of an urban center, gender-ambiguous characters roam free, constructing their own sexualities, identities, social rules and families.
Comics
The marketplace will decide?
Art
After being damaged by a 2011 car bomb, some Brutalist architecture in Oslo is up for demolition. While the debate between the protection of Brutalist architecture and those who see its heavy concrete designs as ugly and bleak is not infrequent in preservation, these buildings include five murals by
Books
As a nun who embraced both pop culture and contemporary art, Corita Kent refracted the messages of religion through the populist medium of printmaking, leaving a legacy of vibrant art that is just now being fully explored. A new book from Prestel, Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent, published in
News
This September 9, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is starting new free early hours in its Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The move is in effect year-round to turn this private space into a public space each morning.
Art
Lampooned by newspapers and cartoonists, the Armory Show may have since become a symbol of the once awkward marriage of European avant-gardism and American mass sensibilities, but at the time it was also a war over what art was and could be.