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
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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
Opinion
If you were to apply the principles of quantum physics to banking, could you generate billions of dollars and fix the world's economy? That's the premise of a new project by artist Jonathon Keats called the Quantum Bank. It opened by way of a prototype quantum ATM installed at the Engineer's Office
Opinion
Rapper/self-awareness wormhole Kanye West gave an interview to Jon Caramanica in yesterday's New York Times, a dialogue on West's new album that devolved into the artist detailing his increasingly insane (or polymathic) credentials as a "creative professional."
Art
CINCINNATI — The trending wardrobe of choice for aspiring female protest artists consists of Day-Glo leotards and matching ski masks. Credit the young punk rock performers known as Pussy Riot, feminist activists who led late 2011 civilian protests in Moscow following Vladimir Putin’s controversial r
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If you only know Crispin Hellion Glover as a quirky actor with the gift of an unsettling gaze, then you're missing out on the major focus of his career as the producer of experimental films that lunge voraciously into taboos. And it's easy to miss, as the only way to see these films is when he scree