Art
Coverage of the visual arts in the New York Times hit a new low last weekend in its Arts & Leisure feature, “The Disrupters,” a roundup of interviews with “people who broke the rules” during 2013, “a year of cultural upheaval.”
Art
Asia Society's Iran Modern is a must-see exploration of a period little known in the West but infinitely interesting for its non-Western responses to modernity, its embrace of the developing world, the prevalence of prominent female artists at a time when the same wasn't true most elsewhere, and its
Art
Many neighborhoods of stately row houses that rose along the East Coast late in the 19th century have declined into decay, or been torn down entirely. Yet sometimes there's one solitary holdout standing tall and proud, its neighbors long since demolished.
Art
On New Year’s Eve I found myself ringing in 2014 at Outlet gallery in Bushwick, watching Miao Jiaxin’s performance piece “News." It was a fitting choice: "News" elicits a hollow catharsis not unlike a New Year’s Day hangover.
Art
Recession Art, the nearly five-year-old organization devoted to showcasing emerging artists and affordable art, is shutting down its gallery next week. The project will continue to exist online, but Recession's physical space will close and it will not mount any more exhibitions.
Opinion
For his third-to-last show of 2013, professional interlocutor Charlie Rose brought on lapsed steelworker Richard Serra for a conversation about the artist's ongoing exhibition of new sculptures at the Gagosian Gallery.
Comics
Editor’s Note: This is Steven Weinberg's second comic in a series that explores the life of a former Brooklyn artist who has moved to the Catskills.
News
Calder lawsuit dismissed, rare flutes destroyed by US customs, stolen brains, and more in the week of art news.
Opinion
As New York City transitions from a technocrat mayor to a more "populist" one, much recent discussion — at least in the press and among us liberals — has focused on homelessness. Artist Andres Serrano has been thinking about the crisis, too.
Art
There are plenty of artifacts of Abraham Lincoln, from his fine pocket watch acquired while he was a successful Illinois lawyer to the presidential top hat he's believed to have worn for that infamous 1865 evening at Ford's Theater.
Art
We've entered 2014 but there is no better time than the present to look back at the art shows of New York that deserve a special mention as some of the most outstanding of the year.
News
Earlier this month, Open Culture pointed to a big move from the British Library: the library is putting a million images into the public domain.