Music
CHICAGO — In the summer of 2011, back before his blown-up image started selling thousands of records, I discovered Frank Ocean while looking through a batch of new releases, through a then-mysterious single called “Novacane.” First I was drawn in by the lyrics, with their Kubrick references, subtle
Art
Today is the final day of a wonderful exhibition that crept into town during the holiday crush and threatens to leave just as quietly, after little more than a three-week run.
Art
Last month, Danish architecture firm BIG unveiled its plans for a landmark in Arizona's largest city that the developer hopes will become a symbol of the city much in the way Seattle's Space Needle has come to represent that great Northwestern city.
Opinion
LOS ANGELES — On a recent long distance bus trip in Uganda, part of my sojourn was occupied by listening to a religious individual on a bus preach, pray, and collect donations from his captive audience. I didn't understand the language but I understood the form, as he shuffled up and down the aisle
News
Facing criticism and threats from hardline Islamists, the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, has shut down an academic journal that published a series of homosexually suggestive paintings. The college pulled the issues from bookstores and dissolved the journal's editorial board, but that
Art
Germany between the two world wars was a time of stunning creativity. Although it saw the rise of Nazism, the Weimar Era also included the flourishing of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) and Dada in visual art, avant-garde theater by the likes of Bertolt Brecht, German Expressionist films, critic
Art
PITTSBURGH – In her mid-career retrospective Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After at the Andy Warhol Museum, Deborah Kass accomplishes the seemingly impossible by breathing new life and critical ideas into the appropriation of Andy Warhol's work.
Opinion
LOS ANGELES — Archival work as an art form? Visit any prolific artist's studio and you'll see the intense need for archiving their work for a future age. This is particularly true, I think, for artists practicing outside the world's major art centers, where extensive media and established institutio
Interview
Bruce Sterling might be the most influential art writer you've never heard of. The sci-fi novelist and cultural commentator is extremely active in the world of new media and creative coding, writing about artists who work with technology as a medium. A new video interview, part of artist James Georg
Art
I’ve had countless people express strong feelings against modern and contemporary art, as if “art” were a dirty word. (As a more high-profile example, filmmaker Werner Herzog’s declaration of despising art comes to mind.) But equally as problematic is the art world’s mocking response to the naysayer
Opinion
I've been thinking a lot about the idea of open journalism in the arts. It's an important question, especially in light of the increased role of social media, blogging, and a general web presence that artists building a career in the 21st century often must maintain.
Opinion
Writer and technologist Robin Sloan has coined the term "flip-flop" to denote an instance when a digital thing becomes physical, or vice-versa. A new project by Amanda Ghassaei that turns audio files into 3D-printed records.