Art
Last week, as I was clicking through the various gallery listings and websites for something to catch my eye, I chanced upon a summer group exhibition at Lehmann Maupin’s Chrystie Street venue. One of the installation shots showed a flat, white marble relief sculpture by Maya Lin; I made a mental no
Art
Before there were the New Casualists, there were the Provisional Painters, and before there were the Provisional Painters, there were the 1980s.
Art
Art can have a unique place in interpretive history experiences by embodying the history of a place with an impactful visual, and making that visual part of the narrative. But it's hard to do well without being overly intrusive or just clashing with the surrounding setting. Here are four examples of
Art
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Kaitlin O'Brien is 16, and she's gonna turn 17 in August. Arguably her biggest accomplishment this year to date was curating Thanks for the Warning (ran through June 22), a 68-person show containing 86 artworks at the Dolphin Gallery, which her father John O'Brien has owned f
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First it was a faraway hum. Ad Hoc Art returned to Welling Court, Queens, this year. Then it became like drums, still far away, but coming closer, rhythmic. Artists covered 100 walls this year alone. Then hundreds of feet joining drums and percussion and marching in rhythm were nearly upon me in tim
Opinion
The blogosphere and the mainstream media have exploded this week over the story of artist Nickolay Lamm, who used 3-D modeling and Photoshop to create a "normal"-looking Barbie. But lest we forget, the fact of Barbie's ridiculous proportions is not news.
News
Chicago's Field Museum's major budget cuts, the return of looted Chinese art, BMW pulls out of BMW Guggenheim Lab, a possible Michelangleo, Baltimore's the Contemporary planned to reopen, the St. Louis Art Museum's new expansion …
Comics
Is this the age old question of theory versus practice?
Comics
It can be an exhausting process.
Books
Why not instead of settling in for an easy summer read, you nudge your brain out of its comfort zone with some independent press selections? Below are three recent releases with an edge of the disconcerting.
News
Though Ugly Duckling Presse holds that "the technology of the physical book is essentially different" from digital copies, today they have taken a significant step in making their catalogue freely available for online download. The influential "micropress," which publishes poetry, translations, lost
Art
What better way to celebrate US Independence Day then with a museum visit? Here are a few institutions you might consider visiting this holiday.