News
After 110 years hidden in a tin at the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, researchers have discovered what are believed to be the world's oldest color films. Created by cinematic pioneer Edward Raymond Turner, the films date to 1902 and depict the inventor's children, a girl on a swing, and sold
Art
It turns out that the CIA has its very own object and art museum for your online viewing pleasure. Although the collection is housed in CIA headquarters making it closed to the public, work does appear to travel to other museums and can be viewed anytime online.
Opinion
A post by my fellow editor Kyle Chayka got me thinking about the "outsider artist" designation and the different ways people define it.
Art
As a painting major in Albany, New York during the late 1980s, it was easy to sprint a few blocks from the art department over to the Nelson Rockefeller Art Collection to grab some inspiration from museum-quality art. Nostalgia for the collection's treasure trove of modernist work came to mind while
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The Occupy Wall Street Movement, the protest that popularized the now-ubiquitous term "99 percent, began last year on September 17. The events in Zuccotti Park kicked off an international storm of activism, and though the movement has been less visible as of late, the one-year anniversary is quickly
Art
This past weekend, hundreds of Brooklyn artists opened their studios to the public for GO Brooklyn Art, allowing visitors an intimate view of their work and processes. I headed to Fort Greene and Clinton Hill to see the how the neighborhoods' artists, many of whom work out of converted domestic spac
Announcement
Tom Matton is a rare kind of designer and architect who looks past the commercial life of objects to explore the underlying realities of their existence. And like many adventurous creators, he took a chance. His exploration led him far from the life he knew in The Netherlands, and the growing discom
Art
“This is the biggest dumb idea I've ever had,” Andrew Ohanesian told me late one night over Budweisers at Pierogi gallery’s massive auxiliary space, The Boiler Room, in North Williamsburg. “There's nothing I hate more than a good idea.” Ohanesian often selects “really stupid” ideas for his art that
Art
With over 200 artists participating in GO Brooklyn in my neck of the woods of Greenpoint, I decided to beat the crowds and visit the farthest reaches of Brooklyn, choosing the last page in the festival brochure with the least amount of artists participating: Coney Island. Here's what I found.
Art
When the artists of Red Hook, the waterfront neighborhood on the western edge of Brooklyn, opened up their studios for the GO Brooklyn weekend, it felt more like they opened Pandora's box. There was no limit to the creativity on view — every trend, mannerism, style, and strategy imaginable was on di
Interview
What do you do when the technology you depend on every day messes up? Instead of getting frustrated or throwing a machine out, Phillip Stearns makes art out of errors. We talked to Stearns in his Brooklyn studio about glitch art and bringing technological bugs into the home.
Art
The other day I saw two solo exhibitions: The Words by Jen Mazza at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery and Game Plan by Alighiero Boetti at MoMA. Both artists want to show you what they value in their lives, but they use their inspiration to different ends. Mazza paints unassuming still lifes of books. Boetti