Art
In looking to create a visual of the word "failure," the Archive of Failure seems almost designed to fail. The project, funded by the Arts Council's Grants for The Arts in the United Kingdom, is crowdsourcing an online and print narrative of anyone's idea of what the word failure is, with "no curati
Art
Artist and curator SOL 'SAX deconstructs the mask as an agent of social change in this tight and pithy show at IMC Lab + Gallery. Masks and costumes, an ageless, transcultural phenomena originate as play in early childhood and continue as ritual all the way up to, and beyond, death.
Art
For meditations on time, there are few places more frenetic with marking the seconds than Grand Central Terminal. The hundreds of thousands of people that pass through the station each day create a constant motion around the gold clock that sits calmly ticking away the moments in the center of the G
Community
CHICAGO — Artists from Denmark, Arkansas, Idaho, New York, and Pennsylvania take part in our continuing series on artist studios.
Art
When Larry Millard showed up in Coney Island in 1957, he was looking for work as a sign painter. His work was so impressive he was hired to do murals across the amusement area, particularly in the recently demolished Playland Arcade. Yet just as suddenly as he appeared, he vanished in 1960 and was n
Art
HONG KONG — I fell in love with Jean Cocteau when I was 19. I spent nights taking photographs of his epic 1930 film The Blood of a Poet frame by frame. The infatuation was similar to one I had with Picasso, whose paintings I copied obsessively, determined to learn the language of the man who made “G
Books
The phrase "barrel of monkeys" generally means a bit of crazy fun. In some cases, though, people may use it as an example of something that's less fun, i.e. "this party is way more entertaining than a barrel of monkeys." This contradictory dual meaning makes Barrel of Monkeys a great title for a gra
Opinion
SAN FRANCISCO — Recently, I stumbled upon the Descriptive Camera, a project by artist Matt Richardson that harkens back to the days when we could simply describe an image without showing it.
Art
On Monday, a sold-out crowd turned out for our inaugural ArtTalk with Klaus Biesenbach. The event could not have been a more auspicious launch for the #ArtTalk series, with which we hope to host edifying speakers engaged with the world of visual culture in unique and provocative ways.
Opinion
A member of the punk feminist group Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina, has declared a hunger strike after a Russian judge refused to allow her to personally attend a court hearing about her possible parole
Opinion
Look, Ai Weiwei's been through hell. But that doesn't mean he needs to put the rest of us through it. And yet, here we are — "Dumbass" has arrived. In terms of metal, Ai Weiwei, in one song, has become the Billy Ray Cyrus of the genre. Billy Ray is about as country as Pat Boone was heavy metal. And
Interview
HONG KONG — "I wanted to enter Hong Kong homes forcefully, allowing these mechanisms of art to become a platform of conspiracy for the Filipino domestic workers." Sun Yuan and Peng Yu discuss their photographic series on view at Art Basel Hong Kong.