Art
Young Asian Americans dominate a great swath of the messy territory called YouTube, holding their own against the well-funded and famous. This fact makes two major points: there is a great pool of Asian Americans who, against the grain of “model minority” professionalism, need an outlet for humor an
Art
Calvary Cemetery in Queens is something of a shadow city to New York. With over 3 million interments (roughly the population of the city of Chicago, to give the staggering number a visual), it not only has more burials than any other cemetery in the city, but also in the United States.
Art
The work of Social Practice is on the rise, but compared to the traditional art world news of auction prices and gallery openings, it doesn't seem to be receiving as much online attention.
Art
Seemingly all of the United States was put into a fashion frenzy last week when it was brought to the media’s attention that the Ralph Lauren-designed uniforms for the 2012 US Summer Olympic team with their all-American flair (and hideous berets) were produced in China.
Art
LOS ANGELES — Circles are endemic to the art world. Who you place in your circle — and who places you in theirs — is an act of social currency, particularly important in a world often run by social relations. But circles are also beautiful, forming iconic architecture like the Guggenheim in New York
Community
This week, studios in Austin, Brooklyn, Chicago and Miami.
News
Artist Ed Ruscha has left the board of LA's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), following the departures last week of John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger and Catherine Opie. The last artist on the board has left the building.
Art
No, the artist was not present at Film Forum for a screening of her documentary, The Artist Is Present, a couple of weeks ago. The artist is Marina Abramović, and though she wasn't there — neither was the director of the film, Matthew Akers — I kept expecting her glamorous self to storm in as a last
News
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 6.28 million people visited the Met during the 2011/12 fiscal year that ended on June 30. Simply, WOW!
Announcement
The Inaugural Edition of Art Southampton [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/22500/19944/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/32665/0], presented by Art Miami July 26–30, is proving to be catnip for savvy young collectors and groups from up and down the East Coast. Many of the individuals and
Opinion
LOS ANGELES — Did you play with Legos as a kid? I did, and so did a lot of other former kids who are now grown-ups. Some of those grown-ups have become artists, and it's been fascinating to see what they've been up to.
Opinion
Brendan Chilcutt's Museum of Endangered Sounds is an online, interactive museum of the old sounds from outdated technology.