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Happy MLK Day!
Today, we will be posting on a holiday schedule. Tomorrow we'll resume our regular posting schedule.
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Opinion
Finding Feminism in World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft (WoW) has a massive following: in 2011, some 10 million users participated in the online role-playing game. And according to a New York Times article from last year, women comprise an increasing numbers of those players and of online gamers in general: they are, apparently, one the
Comics
You Might Be An Artist If …
How to spot an artist in their natural habitat.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, love of Minimalism, Nam June Paik in DC, alternative LA art spaces, non-European thinkers, Cyprien Gaillard speaks, unusual buildings, Gagosian is suing, a car chase comes to life, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Second Acts
With tomorrow ushering in Barack Obama’s second term as President, Weekend Words has the audacity to hope that F. Scott Fitzgerald was wrong, and that there are indeed second acts in American lives.
Art
Artist Unknown: Reflections on Works by Eddie Johnson
Poring through a cache of my late uncle's works on paper, I come across an arresting print purporting to be a self-portrait. It is on delicate and weathered paper. The notes at the bottom state simply: "10/10 Self-Portrait Serigraph, 7 Color" followed by an undecipherable signature that ends with th
Art
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Revolution”
Eternal time posits the existence of paradise, while infinite time does not. Henri Cartier-Bresson found human warmth in his photographs, which he thought as a “decisive moment” that entered into the eternal, whereas Hiroshi Sugimoto sees beauty and inspiration in the coldness of the universe. He re
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (January 2013, Part 1)
This month, reviews of Pink, Macklemore, Bruce Springsteen, The Coup and Grimes.
Art
Skirting the Nether Regions: Black Cake at Team Gallery
Currently at Team Gallery’s two venues, on Grand Street and Wooster Street in Soho, there is an exhibition simply titled Black Cake. Curated by Alex Gartenfeld, it includes only two artists from Team’s roster (Massimo Grimaldi and Ryan McGinley) out of sixteen participants, which puts it outside the
Art
Scraps and Squares: Cordy Ryman's Subversive Formalism
What’s the difference between the lackadaisical and the slapdash? Apparently, a great deal. Although he is employing the same strategies and materials that he used in his 2010 solo exhibition at DCKT Contemporary on the Lower East Side, I found the just-opened Cordy Ryman: Shuffle / Scrap / Echo at
Performance
Enduring Meaning in an Old Medium
Despite cold, rainy weather, a large audience turned out for “… towards meaning in a plural painting world,” a panel discussion moderated by Katy Siegel at Hunter College’s MFA building. The room was filled with young artists and MFA candidates eager to participate, and the place swelled to standing
Opinion
Another Royal Portrait That Was the Subject of Controversy Sees the Light of Day
Less than a week after the art world went into practical meltdown mode over Paul Emsley's portrait of Kate Middleton, the British Duchess of Cambridge, a controversial 1953 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by artist John Napper was carted out after decades in storage. Why now?