News
Museum of 40,000 Fakes Shuttered in China
A museum in China has been forced to shut its doors — not because of a lack of visitors or funding, but because word got out that the vast majority of its 40,000-piece collection is fake. Woops.
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Opinion
The Art Market Is the Market Is the Market
Yesterday's critique of Allison Schrager's art market takedown in Quartz was about something that is ultimately quite simple: certain fictions about the exceptional irrationality or corruption of the art market are sustained for various reasons — from marginalized artists who would sooner believe th
Announcement
Vilcek Foundation's dARTboard Call for Entries in Digital Art Opens
The Vilcek Foundation is looking for their next featured digital artist through the dARTboard Call for Entries in Digital Art [http://engine.adzerk.net/r?e=eyJhdiI6NjkzMSwiYXQiOjIwLCJjbSI6MzkzMjksImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6MTA2MzY4LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjE0NTQ3OCwiZmwiOjcxNjY3LCJudyI6MjA3LCJydiI6MCwicHIiOjE2NjYs
Art
When Will There Be a Memorial for NYC's Second African Burial Ground?
It took two centuries for the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan to be remembered, when 18th century bones were found interred in a forgotten cemetery beneath the construction of a new high dollar federal development in 1991. While that long-overlooked cemetery is now remembered with a museum
Comics
Sometimes Who Is More Important Than What
Some things never change …
Art
Eight Online Series for Your Art-Hungry Eyes
With summer sweltering and those high air conditioning bills to pay, you're melting quickly and not made of money. Why not watch some free online art programming to ease your eyes? Here are eight web series available from your internet device.
Art
The Art Market Smells Like Money
Last week, Atlantic Media's business publication, Quartz, ran a 2200-word takedown of the art market by Allison Schrager. The story was accompanied by a helpful flowchart illustrating how deeply corrupt the art market is, and carries all the familiar signs of the minimally self-aware bloviation char
Art
Remaking the City with Architectural Collage
From a standpoint of cohesion, the architecture of the 20th century was a mess. Brutalist monoliths were constructed alongside shimmering aluminum waves, while some architects clung to scraps of classicism like life preservers in a swelling sea of modernism. However, it was this mishmash of styles a
Announcement
An Art Capital Shines: Berlin Art Week, Sept 17–22, 2013
From September 17–22, 2013, Berlin will attract the world's attention once again as one of the most vibrant centers of contemporary art in the world with the second edition of Berlin Art Week [http://engine.adzerk.net/r?e=eyJhdiI6MjgzODUsImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjM4OTQwLCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY3IiOjEwNjYwOSwiZG0iOj
Opinion
Now Accepting Materials Toward a Theory of the Adult-Man
We turn our gazes toward men and masculinity, and suddenly everyone feels safe again. Consider The New Inquiry's Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child, a response to the ongoing conversations around Preliminary Materials for Theory of the Young-Girl, which uses the body of the young-gir
Books
Five Decades of Tough Love and Leather
In Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary (Prestel, 2012), performer Elizabeth Streb relays an anecdote about artist Nancy Grossman startling her by wearing a monkey fur jacket. It's one of those images that has an unsettling, visceral nature to it, like striding through life in a skin ripped from another
Art
What Did Jorge Luis Borges See in Xul Solar?
The writer Jorge Luis Borges once referred to his friend the artist Xul Solar as “one of the most singular events of our era.” Those in New York have the opportunity to see an important selection of works by the two friends in an exhibition at the Americas Society. Curated by Gabriela Rangel, the sh