Art
When I was a kid, my father kept a dog-eared street map of the Dallas metroplex in his truck’s glove compartment. As a contractor who spent hours driving each day, this atlas was his North Star — a point of reference for navigating the city’s chaotic, concrete sprawl. Today, the cartographic traditi
Art
It's no secret New York City is noisy, from subway platforms where readings have been recorded over 100 decibels to the construction zones constantly tearing down and redeveloping all over the five boroughs. Yet when I was walking around and experimenting with artist Dylan Römer's new iOS app Sonogr
Art
"The Old Becomes The New," at Wilmer Jennings Gallery, tackles a particularly overlooked aspect of Native American artistic development - the fertile exchange that took place between the New York abstract expressionists and Native artists.
Opinion
As more and more people get their information and do their research online, often from the comfort of their own couches, the future of public libraries seems very much up for the debate these days. Should libraries ship some of their books off to storage facilities and bring in more computers, as th
Opinion
Artist Marina Abramović has been pretty quiet since her 2010 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, The Artist Is Present. But she's back! She's here! And she wants you to know where she's been.
Art
Before pride parades, Stonewall, the It Gets Better Project, and "Born This Way," a circle of friends, lovers and artists unabashedly embodied and represented their own homosexuality. This group coalesced around Paul Thek, expressing their identity during a deeply conservative era, as seen in the im
Art
Wandering through five jam-packed floors of art student studios at the New York Academy of Art MFA Open Studios last Friday, I realized that despite the Academy's emphasis on traditional figural art, many artists transcended this stricture through the use of multiple medias to depict nature-inflecte
Art
To tackle the anxiety of online identity and the constant torrential rain of information, artist Toni Dove has orchestrated a ghost story. It's a spectral experience that spills from video screens that raise from the floor and hover from the ceiling, blending in live soundtracking, robotics, motion-
News
By now, we're used to museums partnering with the Google Art Project and sharing selections of their popular or less known collections online. However, this month a photography museum finally got into the mix, with the George Eastman House, the oldest photography museum in the world, offering an ini
News
Cooper Union is not reeling in the wake of today's historic board announcement, but it is hurting. The beleaguered institution's decision to scrap its founder's vision for free education was a long time coming, borne on the back of a boom-time cupidity that has crippled many university endowments. T
Art
Some of the most historic sites of human history aren't even on our planet. On the moon are the six lunar landing sites left from NASA's 1969 to 1972 trips to the moon, and traveling somewhere out in the distance of the universe are interstellar objects like the Voyager probes. There are even closer
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Today, a representative of the Cooper Union board announced that they will be reducing all scholarships by 50% for next year, though some additional scholarships will be available for students.