Announcement
Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Hambleton, Lee Quinones, Kenny Scharf, Futura 2000, CRASH, Taki 183, and other leaders of the first wave of international street art and graffiti stars are included in this week's '80s Graffiti Sale [http://awe.sm/jC2JR] by artnet Auctions.
Opinion
If the debut of Bravo's reality TV show Gallery Girls this fall wasn't enough indication that art is maybe really finally going mainstream — at least on TV — then try this: E! is working on a scripted drama called Gallerina.
Art
Claudia Joskowicz is the master of the tracking shot. In her video "Music to Watch Dead Girls By" (2006), the camera moves seamlessly for 20 minutes through an endless interior, entering into and departing from rooms, discovering and leaving dead girls in its wake. In her next series, the camera mov
Art
SANTIAGO, Chile — The name of the first urban intervention festival in Santiago de Chile, “Hecho en Casa” (“Homemade”), simply comes from the mission of the activities: the aspiration to create a festival for people in downtown Santiago, to make them feel that the streets are their home.
Comics
Some things aren't what you'd expect in the art world …
News
This week, artists on Facebook, where children sleep, Oscar Niemeyer's architectural legacy, tax reform and arts giving, Canada's crowd-sourced art prize, how a Brit learned to speak American, some parallels between malls and wars, and more.
Opinion
If the Mayan calendar has it right, this is the last Weekend Words before the end of the world. Nice knowing you.
Art
Al Loving (1935–2005) was born in Detroit and studied art at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the University of Michigan. Like many art students then and now, he kept up with what was going on in New York through art magazines. In 1968, when he moved to New York City, he was fully
Art
At some point while I was walking around the spacious exhibition space of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, it struck me that Keltie Ferris’s paintings no longer seemed to be making obvious allusions to Joan Mitchell, Frank Stella and Piet Mondrian. This may have been due to the order in which I looked at the
Art
It was there, hanging on my wall and I loved it. I had, so many times, seen this painting on my grandmother’s wall, and had heard her say how she had loved working with and talking about art with the artist, Robert Vonnoh. It was a smallish painting of a bridge and a fisherman, faintly perceptible a
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After a plate of lukewarm gemelli in the Metropolitan Museum cafeteria, an out-of-town friend and I wandered haphazardly into the lower level of the Lehman wing, where the exhibition Bernini: Sculpting in Clay has been in residence since early October. The show, which consists primarily of terra-cot
Art
Is this Judith Bernstein’s moment? With her work now on display in two New York museums, the art world is finally catching up with this uncompromising artist. And it’s taken only four and a half decades.