Interview
Commissioning Creativity from China's 'Artisan Imitators'
Zhenhan Hao's "Imitation" project turns the tables on Chinese artisans who normally create endless copies of art and crafts for global consumers.
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Opinion
Remembering the Days When Artists Could Afford Manhattan
Yesterday, Curbed NY posted a nifty map of 15 buildings in Manhattan that were originally built for artists. Ranging from projects with outside funding to artists' cooperatives, the 15 structures mostly dot Midtown and the Upper East and West Sides, with a few outliers in the West Village. It's fun
Art
Caves of Forgotten Psychedelic Dreams
PORTLAND, Ore. — A label like psychedelic sculpture, for what it's worth, does justice to the gnarly stalactites and unorthodox mineral deposits of the Oregon Caves National Monument. Seriously, it's like walking through a three dimensional Grateful Dead album cover.
Opinion
Finally, a Mobile Way to Explore Nollywood
Chew on this … the Nigerian film industry, aka "Nollywood," overtook Hollywood in 2009 in terms of the number of films produced, and it is outdone only by Bollywood.
Art
Two Pioneers of Arab Abstraction, Side by Side
LONDON — In a time of acute upheaval, there is something comforting about the concurrent retrospectives currently on view at the Tate Modern for two seminal Arab modernists, Saloua Raouda Choucair and Ibrahim El-Salahi.
Art
Six NYC Places Most in Danger of Disappearing This Fall
As anyone who spends a few months watching a New York neighborhood knows, things change. Buildings disappear or suddenly spring up with glass and steel towers. This fall, a few of the city's more interesting places are in danger of disappearing completely, including a mid-century futurist airline te
Opinion
A Brief History of Popular Satire
In the most recent edition of The Economist, an article makes the claim that satire has, in recent decades, seen an unprecedented popularization. No longer the fief of haughty artists and writers, satire is now an everyman's gig, they say.
Interview
An Interview with the First Poet Laureate of MoMA
Kenneth Goldsmith and I sat down at our computers in constantly changing parts of the world, and we talked about his recent poet laureateship at the Museum of Modern Art. For the position, he delivered a special lecture and organized a series that invited contemporary poets to read in galleries to m
Books
Rare and Forgotten Photography Books, Resurrected
Many landmark photography books are simply unavailable today. By reprinting expensive, rare, or out-of-print photobooks in new editions, the small press Errata Editions is aiming to make some significant reissues of such books available through their Books on Books project.
Art
Art Rx
By the calendar, you've still got a few weeks left of summer, but in the art world fall has arrived, which means tons of openings and events.
Opinion
Man Finds Thing and It Is All Worthwhile
The thing found by the man sat for many years piled amid the musty crenellations of his attic.
Art
The Beauty of a Sculpted Experience at Storm King
The Hudson Valley has a special kind of light and soaring nature, with its elevations and valleys illuminated with sun, starlight, and storm. At the Storm King Art Center with its installations of giant metal sculptures that seem alien on the meadows, or land art that warps the earth, the most inter