Opinion
Self-Healing Material
Mimicking how our body responds to cuts, scientists work to create self-healing materials.
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Opinion
Twittering Machine 2.0
Angelo Plessas is a net artist whose works predominately deal with color, interactivity and sound. "Re-Twittering Machine" (2012) caught my attention because of the ever growing hype around social media's role in social unrest like the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement.
News
Ai Weiwei's Bail Conditions Lifted But He Could Face Bigamy and Pornography Charges
A year ago Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was slapped with bail conditions — after an 81-day detention by Chinese authorities — the prominent activist and artist has been freed from those shackles, but there's no rejoicing because of what may come next.
Art
The Spare, Profound Inventiveness of an Almost Forgotten Sculptor and Other Queens Discoveries
Instead of tackling a neighborhood like the Northside Festival of Williamsburg/Greenpoint or Bushwick Open Studios, the Queens Arts Express, a project of the Queens Arts Council decided to tackle the creative spirit of an entire borough over the course of four days.
Art
Grave Reminders of Life
Some of the most beautiful sculpture in New York is dark adornment to the city's cemeteries, stunning reminders of transience conveyed through the semi-permanence of stone and metal. This is the story of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, one of the most elegant in the country.
Art
Art Rx
This week, the doctor is prescribing some much-needed hot subway rides into Manhattan for some art-related fun.
News
The Evolving and Bizarre Story of Houston's Vandalized Picasso
Poor Picasso. His "Femme au fauteuil rouge (Woman in a Red Armchair)" (1929) was vandalized last week at Houston's Menil Collection and the artist claiming responsibility for the action, Uriel Llanderos, has essentially been bragging about his bravado on his rather sparse Facebook page. But the stor
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Museum Dives Into Its Collection and Pulls Out A Winner
CHICAGO — Of all the museums in Chicago, the one that keeps surprising me and making me go back is the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Ai Weiwei Blocked From Court, His Legal Consultant Goes Temporarily Missing
Today, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was harassed by police in an attempt to block him from attending his scheduled court appearance at the Beijing tax bureau.
Interview
America Runs On Graff: An Interview with Moody
Even though both genres risk their freedom by putting their art up on the streets, the worlds of graffiti writing and street art are often separated and even completely antagonistic. Rarely does a graffiti writer turn into a street artist or vice versa. Enter Moody, aka Mutz.
Interview
A New Currency for the Internet
Though its merely a global system of interconnected computers, the internet truly exists within its own spatial realm, in many ways a world each of us are citizens of in addition to our own countries. It lacks, however, its own unique and universal superstructures established in the physical world l
Opinion
The Effects of Jaws, a Classic Turns 37
Truth be told, Jaws changed things. And tomorrow the film turns 37.