Interview
KAMPALA, Uganda — We gathered on a dusty road in the Kololo neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda's capital city, for coffee at The Hub, a popular coworking and events space. It had been a few weeks now since the terrific Kampala Art Festival, and I was just scratching the surface of Uganda's art scene. I
Opinion
Pantone's Color of the Year 2013 is… emerald! The company's famed color consultants have come up with the single hue that will define our coming year, and it's a deep, elegant version of green.
Art
Sure, humans tend to be the most dexterous of the animals, with their fancy thumbs and articulated motor skills, but can any people artists be as adorable as Speedy the three-banded armadillo? Unlikely. The South American mammal, whose defining skill is curling into a ball, is one of the many creatu
Opinion
Whether art still has the power to disrupt, offend, and shock is a well-worn topic in the art world. Many of us take it for granted that, as Jennifer Schuessler wrote this past fall in the New York Times, "Shock long ago went mainstream." At heart, though, the question concerns not just an artwork b
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A new issue of Forbes magazine comes with a cover story on David Karp, the founder of the social media behemoth Tumblr. The profile, included as part of the magazine's 30 Under 30 list of "prodigies" (Karp is 26) is titled, "Tumblr: David Karp's $800 Million Art Project." What do they mean by that,
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On eBay right now, you can buy a piece of tape used to mark the position of the visitors' chair for Marina Abramović's epic 2010 performance at the Museum of Modern Art. That might strike you as a fairly minute and extreme bit of fan ephemera, which it may very well be. But it's also an artwork by M
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With a brand new year comes a slew of new museum exhibitions to look forward to. From retrospectives of major artists like Claes Oldenburg and James Turrell to an exploration of New York City art during one year in the 1990s, here's a look at what to expect from NYC's art museums in 2013.
Opinion
As the New York Times convenes a debate over the possibility of an art market bubble in a letter to the editor, the news arrives that international art sales reached a grand total of $64 billion over the past year, reports Artlyst.
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CHICAGO — Dutes Miller’s show at Western Exhibitions, one of Chicago’s premier avant-garde galleries, is called In the Garden. The main theme of the collages, paintings, and sculptures is an exploration of the male body as it manifests itself in gay desire, in its evident state of arousal, its protu
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This is Robert Indiana first large-scale "LOVE" sculpture (1970 by Lippincott) ever made and it is in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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HONG KONG — You have to hand it to Richard Harris, whose collection is currently on view at London’s Wellcome Collection in an exhibition of some 300 works titled Death: A Self-Portrait. As far as collectors go, this is a show that gets right to the core of why a collector collects. It is an answer
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Though the world didn’t end on 21 December, the Kathmandu International Art Festival did, having possibly changed forever the way Nepal perceives contemporary art. The space given over to three-dimensional, site-specific, and video installations as well as performances in the fest