Opinion
Enter Unpaid Arts Invoices Into the World's Longest Invoice
LOS ANGELES — Expanding on the question as to while most artists are poor, one project explores who isn't getting paid what they're owed.
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Inaugural Photoville Comes to Brooklyn Bridge Park June 22–July 1
This summer United Photo Industries is taking the next step in helping to create an extraordinary global community of artists. Working in partnership with local galleries, national institutions and an international network of curatorial partners, United Photo industries is building Photoville — a un
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How To Talk About Art: Jeff Koons Edition
With plans in the offing for Jeff Koons’s astounding “Train” to dangle preposterously over the heedless noggins of visitors to the High Line, it might just be a good time to polish up your talking points regarding the greatest of all kitsch artists.
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WTC1 Is Officially the Tallest Building in New York
WTC1 may have reached the 100-floor mark on April 2, but today, April 30, it has officially surpassed the Empire State Building (1,250 ft./381 m) as the tallest building in New York.
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An Arts Festival on the Prairie
A few weekends ago, I drove to Urbana, Illinois, to take in the Boneyard Arts Festival, a four-day program of open studios, readings, concerts and performances.
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Thank You to Our April Sponsors
We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month's sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out! * ArtPrize [http://www.artprize.org/] — Part art competition, part social experiment that awards $560,000 total in prizes; registr
Opinion
The Problem with Big Art
Ossian Ward has a feature in Art in America this month about the dismaying trend of bigness in the contemporary art world. The piece is an exploration of a problem that's only been growing (no pun intended): art as a series of bigger and better spectacles, upstaged only by the vast and cavernous spa
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Screens, Networks and Our Imagination
When I visited JODI’s current exhibition, Street Digital, at the Museum of the Moving Image, I wondered how the notorious duo would take their earlier net art practices into the “street” (or gallery). Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans of JODI became well-known in the 1990s for upending traditional in
Opinion
New Aesthetic Watch: Text Only Instagram and Pinterest
LOS ANGELES — Instagram is all about self expression, capturing a moment and sharing it with fun filters. Pinterest is also a form of self expression, a way to curate what you like into one page, thus broadcasting yourself to the world as a person of taste (or lack thereof, if that's your goal).
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Aboriginal art in danger, Andrew Masullo must be a hipster, Lenin of the East Village, Buddhism's influence on the American avant garde, the early evolution of human culture and freedom and art.
Art
Can We Still Learn To Speak Martian?
Let us start with two addresses just a few blocks from each other in San Francisco, and what was happening there in the early and mid-1950s. On Halloween, 1954, the Six Gallery opened at 3119 Fillmore Street in San Francisco. The six founders were Wally Hedrick, Deborah Remington, Hayward King, Davi
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When Things Go Wrong: Serban Ionescu's "Secret History"
Serban Ionescu was born in Communist Romania and did not speak until he was six. That’s what it says in Dede Young’s essay for Secret History, his solo show at Bridge Gallery on the Lower East Side.