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A Peek at Nomi Ruiz After Hours + Free Album Download
If you couldn't make it to the Thursday, May 9 After Hours event featuring performer Nomi Ruiz then do not fear, we have a video that will give you a taste of what you may have missed.
News
Cooper Union Update: Trustee Culture and Leak
An exhausted-sounding Peter Cafiero, outgoing President of Cooper Union's Alumni Association, took to the Rose Auditorium stage on Monday night to introduce the annual Alumni Council Forum, noting that “hopefully this will continue the process of better connecting everyone, and build a community whi
Art
Can a Crowdsourced Narrative of Failure Do Anything But Fail?
In looking to create a visual of the word "failure," the Archive of Failure seems almost designed to fail. The project, funded by the Arts Council's Grants for The Arts in the United Kingdom, is crowdsourcing an online and print narrative of anyone's idea of what the word failure is, with "no curati
Art
The Power Behind the Mask
Artist and curator SOL 'SAX deconstructs the mask as an agent of social change in this tight and pithy show at IMC Lab + Gallery. Masks and costumes, an ageless, transcultural phenomena originate as play in early childhood and continue as ritual all the way up to, and beyond, death.
Art
The Persistence of Time at Grand Central Terminal
For meditations on time, there are few places more frenetic with marking the seconds than Grand Central Terminal. The hundreds of thousands of people that pass through the station each day create a constant motion around the gold clock that sits calmly ticking away the moments in the center of the G
Community
A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Artists from Denmark, Arkansas, Idaho, New York, and Pennsylvania take part in our continuing series on artist studios.
Art
The Master of Coney Island: The Art of Larry Millard
When Larry Millard showed up in Coney Island in 1957, he was looking for work as a sign painter. His work was so impressive he was hired to do murals across the amusement area, particularly in the recently demolished Playland Arcade. Yet just as suddenly as he appeared, he vanished in 1960 and was n
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Jean Cocteau: The Man in the Mirror
HONG KONG — I fell in love with Jean Cocteau when I was 19. I spent nights taking photographs of his epic 1930 film The Blood of a Poet frame by frame. The infatuation was similar to one I had with Picasso, whose paintings I copied obsessively, determined to learn the language of the man who made “G
Books
This Book Is About as Fun as a Barrel of Monkeys
The phrase "barrel of monkeys" generally means a bit of crazy fun. In some cases, though, people may use it as an example of something that's less fun, i.e. "this party is way more entertaining than a barrel of monkeys." This contradictory dual meaning makes Barrel of Monkeys a great title for a gra
Opinion
Images Worth a Dozen Words
SAN FRANCISCO — Recently, I stumbled upon the Descriptive Camera, a project by artist Matt Richardson that harkens back to the days when we could simply describe an image without showing it.
Art
Klaus Biesenbach #ArtTalk Recap
On Monday, a sold-out crowd turned out for our inaugural ArtTalk with Klaus Biesenbach. The event could not have been a more auspicious launch for the #ArtTalk series, with which we hope to host edifying speakers engaged with the world of visual culture in unique and provocative ways.