Art
The Case of the Vanishing Grossmalerman, Part 1
Well, did I ever have an exciting and downright adventurous Armory week!
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Brooklyn’s New Transfer Gallery Brings Internet Art Into Real Space
Internet art thrives in its native medium — over the past few years, there have been a significant number of online-only galleries, including Bubblebyte, Fach&Asendorf, and Klaus Gallery, that focused exclusively on showing the work of digital artists online. Physical spaces that make the necessary
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Take a Walk in an Eerie Swedish Forest, All on Your iPhone
"We are not supposed to know what happens in the future," states the first character you encounter in Year Walk, an iOS game released last month that pushes the boundaries of what experiences can be created through mobile gaming. More than just a series of puzzles or point-and-click game, Year Walk
Opinion
Get Your Abstract Video Art Projected in MoMA’s Lobby
The Museum of Modern Art wants to use your home videos to decorate its storied lobby and atrium for its next PopRally party. The catch? The submissions have to be totally abstract, and just one minute long.
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The Controversies of Kara Walker
A photograph of Obama behind a podium hangs below the image of a glaring white cross, aflame. Black-and-white figures taper down the wall unceremoniously, but beautifully balanced amid scuffs and marks. This is a photograph of the artist Kara Walker’s studio wall, and she’s showing us the process by
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A Clear Set of Demands: How to Be a Constituency of Artists
So far this year I’ve been to two different events that highlight different but related approaches to political organizing among artists here in New York. Just to clarify what I mean by organizing — literally bringing individual artists together into a larger community that can advocate for and crea
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Art Rx
This week, the doctor's prescription comes in the form of the theme: arty encounters with the everyday.
Opinion
Just in Case You Forgot that the US Visa Mess Impacts the Art Community
Nick Bertke (aka Pogo) is an Australian mashup artists who has found himself in an unusual predicament, he has received a 10 year ban from entering the United States for not having the proper visa when crossing the border. He took his plea to YouTube.
Art
The Alchemical Art Innovators of Postwar Japan
Fifteen years in the making, the current Guggenheim exhibition on Gutai presents a groundbreaking spectrum of the art of that group, shaking to its core the notion of the West as the epicenter of contemporary art practices. The show, curated by Ming Tiampo, associate professor of art history at Carl
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FBI Amps Up Efforts for 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft
Today, the FBI announced that they have identified possible suspects in the shocking 1990 Isabella Gardner Stewart Museum heist of $500m worth of art, including three works by Rembrant, Vermeer’s "The Concert" (1658–1660), Govaert Flinck’s "Landscape with an Obelisk" (1638), five works by Edgar Dega
Comics
Can't You Take an Art Joke?
I've found that when artists use humor someone will call the work trite or silly or …
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The Coney Island History Project Reopens Post-Sandy
After sustaining significant damage in Hurricane Sandy, the Coney Island History Project is reopening their reconstructed space on March 24, Coney Island's Opening Day, and are already looking at ways to capture the story of the storm as part of their mission to chronicle the area's history.