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Samsara Provides an Inspiring, if Purposeless, Display of Human Spirituality and Creativity
Samsara, a Sanskrit word that means “world” or “cyclic existence,” is also a recently released documentary by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson. It’s a collection of mind-blowing, Planet Earth-style shots, but instead of taking on the natural world, the film’s directors chose to represent a topic that’s
Opinion
3D Video Artist Wendy Vainity is the Henry Darger of the Internet
Does Wendy Vainity actually know what she’s doing? The 48-year-old native of Adelaide, Australia is one of the weirdest YouTube users I’ve ever come across, with a collection of homemade 3D animations that range from the surreal to the creepy to the outright bizarre and disturbing.
Opinion
Green Footprints Make a Green Tree
Chinese artist Jody Xiong, who's collaborating with the China Environmental Protection Foundation, placed large white canvases on 132 crosswalks in 15 cities in China. As each person crossed, they picked up a small amount of green paint on their shoes, which they left as trails on the canvas.
Opinion
Wall Street Goes Down in Flames at Burning Man
Artist Otto Von Danger (aka Otto Ewen) has created "The Burn Wall Street Project" at this year's Burning Man and set it on fire.
Opinion
Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?
Art historian and associate professor at New York’s CUNY Graduate Center Claire Bishop has taken to the pages of Artforum’s September edition to issue a kind of rebuke for contemporary art. She argues, in an extended essay that only briefly detours into egregious artspeak, that though the new realit
Books
It Is Broke, We Should Probably Fix It: The Nonprofit Model and the Arts
It can be a subtle thing — the way in which an organization or collective comprised of ambitious and purposeful people working toward a clear set of goals starts to slip into something a bit murkier; something that seems to be more about self-perpetuation and outsiders’ goals than about that origina
Art
Art Is Free …Sometimes
There are many an artist who dedicate themselves to subverting the commodification of their own work and the current exhibition at Nurture Art, Is This Free?, addresses the topic with a three-part summer exhibition.
Art
A Blank Slate and Some Curious Matter
Artist Aimée Burg organized Tabula Rasa, the current show at Curious Matter in downtown Jersey City. On view until September 16, the exhibition features nine artists, many of whom hail from the MFA program at Yale University. Participating artists include Sam Anderson, Lorraine Dauw, Frank De Leon-J
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, real estate as art, Design Museum app, Damien Hirst is a disgrace, online bids doing well at Christie's, Rem Koolhaas profile, Instagram pic cliches, African fashion blogs and more.
Performance
Queer Spectacle: Jennifer Miller and Circus Amok
It’s a hot Friday afternoon. Inside the LAVA Studio in Brooklyn, six bodies take turns tumbling on a large blue mat: forward rolls, cartwheels, back handsprings, backward rolls into handstands. They cheer each other on throughout the warm-up. Their bodies are strong, their energy joyfully palpable.
Art
Single Point Perspective: Kafka's Object and Its Objectives
There is a rather large and forbidding object currently on display on the second floor of the New Museum. More than 9 ½ feet tall and 6 ½ feet wide, it is made up of two sections: an upper level composed of three cabinet doors, one of which is open to expose a set of gearwheels, and a mattress with