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Opinion
Last night, rumors started circulating about Jay-Z doing some kind of Rajnar-Kjartansson-meets-Marina Abramović performance art mashup, in which he would rap his new art-inspired song "Picasso Baby" at a rotating cast of hand-picked art-world individuals continuously for a few hours.
Opinion
Archaeologists in China have apparently unearthed 5,000-year-old hieroglyphs, a discovery with potentially significant implications for the study of the origins of written language, the Associated Press reported today.
Opinion
The Museum of the City of New York is planning an exhibition of photographs from Hurricane Sandy for the one-year anniversary of the storm. And importantly, the organizers aren't just interested in professional pictures; they want submissions from anyone and everyone with images to share.
Opinion
CHICAGO — Explosives blow up skies the world over. From our smartphone-enhanced filter bubbles, we learn to consume these explosive images on social sites like Instagram, where the Insta-aesthetics of war know no global boundaries. Instagram offers a space for mediating the chemical explosions, corp
Art
As a follow up to our investigation into the realm of obsolete pigments, here is a look at some of the surfaces that those pigments were applied to that have also fallen into obsolescence. This doesn't mean they have entirely disappeared, as even the most obscure material is likely still sought out
Comics
Is it really that surprising?
Art
The Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) has begun and I will be blogging weekly photo essays of all the performances — a small fraction of the complete schedule — I attend each week.
Art
What a wondrous and rare creature is the unicorn — and of course sadly nonexistent. But that hasn't stopped the single-horned equine of myth to prance its way into centuries of art, acting as graceful spirit strutting through the forest or a captured creature representing everything from the entrapm
Opinion
According to a recent and widely publicized tiff involving a trailer leak, filmmaker Steve Loveridge's blog, and Roc Nation, terror-chic rocker M.I.A. might be taking her flailing autobiographical documentary project to the masses via Kickstarter. She announced the possibility in a tweet over the we
Art
There's repurposed architecture all over New York City, from banks that have become grocery stores to a water tower becoming a speakeasy, but the most monumental transformations are definitely to be found among the city's old cinema palaces.
Art
Since painters of any stripe, be it abstract or figurative, no longer work around master narratives, trying to tackle one big issue, it’s common to see group shows of abstract painting arranged around particular interests or strategies a select group of artists may share.