Art
Art Rx: Frieze Week
Two words, darlings: art fairs! Frieze New York has spawned a bona fide fair week. But if you suffer from fair fatigue, don't worry: the doctor's got plenty of other recommendations.
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Interview
The New Digital Puritans: Social Network Censorship #NSFW
Reuben Negron, an artist who lives and works in Connecticut and New York, is best known for his realistic watercolor depictions of intimate moments, ranging from the raw to the vulnerable. His scenes often give me the impression of looking in a mirror. Negron's series This House of Glass, “an intima
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Honoring the Day-glo Vibes of 1980s America
Hawaiian-born artist and designer Jasper Wong [http://engine.adzerk.net/r?e=eyJ0cyI6MTM2Nzg3ODMxNTUwNSwiYXYiOjI3MzcsImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjMzNTIxLCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY3IiOjgyMzE0LCJmYyI6MTE0NjcyLCJmbCI6NTU5MzUsIm53IjoyMDcsInJ2IjowLCJwciI6MTY2NSwic3QiOjAsImRpIjoiODU1N2Q3MzQ0Y2NmNDQwZmJjOTY5NjAzZjEyOWI1MDIiLCJ1
Opinion
First Western Painting of Native Americans Discovered at the Vatican
During the recent restoration of Pinturicchio's Resurrection fresco (1494) on the wall of the Hall of Mysteries in the Borgia Apartment at the Vatican has revealed what may be the first images of Native Americans in European art.
Art
EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artists from Creative Growth Center on Pharrell's YouTube Channel
If you're an art-loving person, there's a good chance you've seen work by artists from the Creative Growth Center. Their art has been shown in galleries and museums worldwide; you might, for instance, have strolled past some of it at last fall's Rosemarie Trockel retrospective at the New Museum. But
Music
The Dancehall Meets the Sound Installation for Some "Hard Love"
What happens when you immerse the vocals of a dancehall queen who thrives on pulsing beats in the droning of an art sound machine? That was the experiment set up between Jamaican dub vocalist Warrior Queen and New York artist Marina Rosenfeld in P.A./Hard Love, which had its premiere last weekend at
Art
What's Going on at the SF Fine Arts Museums?
For more than six months, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have been in the news nonstop. Robert Flynn Johnson, the museums' curator emeritus, summed it up pretty well when he called the museums' situation “a state of Orwellian dysfunction.” And that's just the news that's been reported.
Comics
Artists in Love ♥
There are obviously limits to the power of the artist.
Art
Viral Image to Real Rubbers: Pop Pope
MILWAUKEE — When a story, an image of a work of art, or an essay goes viral, it has struck a cultural nerve, somewhere, and people can’t stop passing it on. The work itself becomes freed of the space where it was first realized; it is taken over by global internet culture and social networks, co-opt
Art
Early Anatomical Specimens Model the Macabre
Long before Body Worlds shocked people with its theatrically preserved people or Damien Hirst even thought to dunk a dead shark in a tank of formaldehyde, scientists were erring into the realm of art with their attempts at preserving life for anatomical study. The specimens in particular that emerge
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a history of emoticons, Barocci in London, LA's architecture mess, the birth of the Garbage Pail Kids, William Eggleston and baseball, how China censors social media, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Plunder
This week we learned that the family of legendary gallery owner Paul Rosenberg, who was the exclusive representative of Matisse, Picasso and Braque, has claimed ownership of a Matisse that has been in the collection of Norway's Henie Onstad Arts Center for decades.