Art
Let's Play Google Art Critic!
Last week, I was playing around on my gadgets and inadvertently discovered that Google has an opinion on everything including art.
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Opinion
Goal Setting and Art Making — Do They Contradict Each Other?
LOS ANGELES — I meet a lot of artists these days who have big goals. Some of the most successful ones even write them out, with specific numbers like a solo show and such-and-such gallery within three years. In a competitive art environment, it's great to have goals, and it's great to make progress
Art
Prisoner Fantasies
While I often feel that galleries and museums have overzealous security guards, I was not completely prepared for entering the Clocktower Gallery in Lower Manhattan, located on what feels like the forgotten 13th floor of one the city’s courthouses.
Opinion
Hipsters at the Louvre and Illuminated Hollywood Films
The Behance Network is hosting two projects that blend classical and contemporary in clever, playful ways.
News
The Asia Art Archive's Collections Go Online
LOS ANGELES — As the Asian art market grows, so does the need for archiving the growing bodies of work being exhibited across the continent and beyond. Last month, I received word that the Asian Art Archive (AAA), the leading organization working on just that goal, has launched its collection online
Interview
Poetry, Immigration and the FBI: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Almost five years ago, Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab released the first iteration of the Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), a mobile-phone technology that provides poetry to immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border while leading them to water caches in the Southern Californi
Art
Female Artists, Female Bodies
I was standing with a female painter friend in the Metropolitan Museum recently, in front of work by Van Gogh, when she said, “There are no rules.” Then, after a beat, she added, “Or he was hallucinating all the time and painted exactly what he saw.” For women, rules define a set of social expectati
Opinion
An Adventure of Illustrated Urban Landscapes
GRRRR.net, by Ingo Giezendanner, is a mystifying and beautiful internet adventure to stumble upon. With seemingly endless compartments and levels to wander through, I spent nearly two hours exploring it recently.
Art
Staten Island and the Man Who Really Invented the Telephone
Sounds scratched from the urban streets or imagined for the world under the water are mixed with a story of both fact and fiction in Telettrofono, presented by stillspotting nyc on Staten Island.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the art work that can't be sold, China's problems, new art neighborhoods, Sigmund Freud's voice and more.
Art
Single Point Perspective: Weegee's Balancing Act
Weegee, the New York tabloid photographer, who documented street life in the “naked city” in the 1930s and 40s, had an eye for the asymmetrical. His principle subject was public mayhem: the crime and criminals that enacted their traumatic narratives in public.
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (July 2012)
This month, reviews of Far East Movement, Loudon Wainwright III, Kimbra, Lee Ranaldo, Norah Jones, Royal Thunder, Rhett Miller, and Nicki Minaj.