Art
Unbuilt Museums
Some museums just aren't meant to be. For reasons of being too complicated, expensive, or just too out there to exist, many architects' plans for museums have been unrealized.
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German Court Protects Rights of Nazi-Saluting Artist
A German court ruled yesterday that Berlin and Hamburg-based conceptual and performance artist Jonathan Meese had not violated the country's notoriously strict anti-hate laws in his performances of the Nazi salute.
Opinion
Guaranteed to Make You Smile: Emoji Art History 2.0
Thanks to Annie Werner at Tumblr, who has pointed out that Emoji Art History has gone to the next level.
Art
Early Photographs of a Child Getting Spooked by Bogeymen
What child doesn't dread the unseen monsters potentially lurking under the bed, or stalking around the shadows outside the window? These photographs from the 1920s realize this terror in a series of comical and upsetting staged horror.
Opinion
Photos About Mental Health
Maybe there's something to Lana Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness" song: summer can sometimes be an intense, heavy season, so perhaps that is why two recent articles have been dipping their toes into the pool of complex emotion that is contemporary life.
News
Jasper Johns Assistant Charged With $6.5M Theft of 22 Unauthorized Works
According to documents released this morning, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the New York Office of the FBI have charged a former studio assistant to Jasper Johns with the theft of 22 "unauthorized" Johns works. The assistant, 51-year-old James Meyer of
Community
A View from the Easel
Artist studios in Berlin, Detroit, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming.
Interview
Building a Museum of Activism
You can put many things in a museum — paintings, sculptures, skeletons, interactive displays illustrating mathematical concepts — but what about activism? How do you exhibit it while also keeping it, or insisting that it is still, alive? Those are questions facing Bill Di Paola and Laurie Mittelmann
Art
Absinthe, Ambien, and Other Caustic Chemical Experiments with Photography
What happens if you put absinthe in your photographic emulsion? Or Drano? Or Ambien? These are the kind of caustic chemistry games New York artist Matthew Cetta has been experimenting with in his Photogenic Alchemy series.
Art
Spanish Collective Protests Corruption With Monument to Laundering
The Madrid art collective Luzinterruptus has crafted a satirical public sculpture to protest the corrupt allocation of 3.96 million Euros ($5.3 million) to shift a Christopher Columbus statue a few meters in a public square.
Art
Participating in Sound, Interacting With Noise
This month, sound art in New York continues to bloom in various locations throughout the city. First up was “Soundings: A Contemporary Score” at MOMA, then came Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Voice Tunnel.” Residency Unlimited, which holds residencies for international artists, jumped into the fray by host
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Take Your Picture with an Oversize Neosurrealist Dream Head
CHICAGO — Amanda Ross-Ho's giant gray mannequin head is a neosurrealist’s dream come true. Resting comfortably in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, it looks as if caught in preparation for use in a Man Ray photogram. Ross-Ho's site-specific installation THE CHARACTER AND SHAPE OF ILLU