Art
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Curators organize groups of art objects into exhibitions. Might it be said that museum directors organize groups of exhibitions into an identity or an institution? The highlight of Savannah College of Art and Design’s deFINE Art conference last week came for me in the form of a p
Books
The Aperture Foundation publishes beautiful photography monographs that are designed to look more like a portfolio than a book; such is their emphasis on image plates over explanatory text. The Factory of Dreams: Inside Televisa Studios, one of Aperture’s recent publications featuring the Brooklyn-b
Art
Happy almost March! In celebration of the new month, the doctor's got lots of great stuff for you this week — a wide range of artistic medicines to remedy and relieve any ailments you might have.
Book Review
You've probably seen Irving Harper's work even if you don't know his name. His "Ball Clock" made for the Howard Miller Clock Company is an icon of mid-century Atomic Age design; his Marshmallow Sofa, created in the 1950s/60s for Herman Miller, is a continuously popular and curious piece of furniture
Hyperallergic
Art21 is celebrating. The arts nonprofit has hit an amazing milestone of 100 artists who have appeared to date on the first six seasons of their Peabody Award-winning documentary series Art in the Twenty-First Century.
Announcement
Katey Red is the unlikely godmother of bounce music. Katey, a trans rapper who stands over six feet tall and has a penchant for miniskirts, got her start in bounce in the late '90s, as she explains in this Avant/Garde Diaries [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/61363/43837/0/00000000000000000000
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Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of commissioned essays for The World’s First Tumblr Art Symposium on Saturday, March 9, 2013. When I sent my first email in the 1990s, the internet was just beginning to hit the mainstream. The idea that we would use the internet to talk to friends we kn
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Sitting in an intimate audience at the LGBT Community Center on a recent Tuesday night, I observed an unexpectedly inspirational conversation: three queer artists with different practices revealed their use of art as a means to construct a community, counter invisibility, and declare acceptance of t
Art
Charles Krafft's artwork would be creepy no matter what. The artist makes porcelain ceramics in the traditions of Dutch Delftware and Italian maiolica pottery, but with a postmodern twist: the pieces are shaped like guns and grenades, or feature scenes of warfare and death (Disasterware), or portrai
Comics
Some things take time …
Opinion
This week, Banksy dramas, Sou Fujimoto's cloud-like Serpentine Pavilion, a queer history of computing, improv doesn't pay, claims of discrimination at the El Museo del Barrio, and more.
Opinion
With a meteor streaking across the Siberian sky and the Oscars ceremony tonight, Weekend Words fixes its eye on the stars — shooting, falling or going nowhere in particular.