Interview
Kymia Nawabi took home first prize on season two of Bravo's Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, taking home $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. On the final episode of Work of Art, she organized her works in a presentation entitled Not for Long, My Forlorn, a series of drawings th
Comics
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News
AUSTIN, Texas — In a strange sequence of events, it seems that the Hefner Empire wants — and has recently obtained — a lease on 6,500 square feet of land west of Marfa, Texas, which is best known in the art world as the home of artist Donald Judd's Chinati and Judd Foundations.
Opinion
On the second track of David Byrne's last album with the Talking Heads, he told the story of Mr. Jones, a pyrotechnic jack-of-all trades, "everybody's friend," straddling the creative universe of "rock stars" and the hum-drum of "conventioneers." But when Byrne took to the stage last week, all wire-
Books
With summer almost upon us, we note the arrival on these shores of Mary Heilmann: Good Vibrations, published last year by Walther König, Cologne, to accompany the artist’s reception of the prestigious Biennial Award for Contemporary Art (BACA) and its related exhibition.
Art
There may be no such thing as a perfect heist, but that doesn't mean there can't be a beautifully designed one. That's the idea behind London-based designer Ilona Gaynor's "Under Black Carpets" project, which looks at the architecture of a city landscape as both an aid and a detriment in her evolvin
Announcement
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Opinion
LOS ANGELES - Too many documentaries on architecture feature the same faces, and they're mostly male. Same goes for panel discussions, lectures, and exhibits. The new documentary Coast Modern does a better job, yet there's still far to go.
Art
The brilliant and inventive mind of Susan Weil is on full display at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery through June 15. At 83, Weil has lived at the epicenter of the New York art world since the early 1950s, and although her art has been relatively overshadowed by that of her contemporaries, Weil’s curren
Art
BERLIN — In a visually stunning multichannel video installation, "The Enclave" (2013), Richard Mosse has created an immersive environment that plunges the viewer into the heart of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The installation in the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Bienn
Art
As dreams are the fragments of personal memory colliding into our sleep, it makes sense that "dreamscapes" imagined by a prominent fashion photographer would be rich with sleek surrealism and carefully staged beauty.
News
Arlene’s Grocery, the popular Lower East Side bar, gallery space, and concert venue, has taken down a show featuring the work of Robert Preston, arguing that the artist's work was too "aggressive" and "literal" for their venue. Preston's pieces, all paintings from his Seven Deadly Sins series, were