News
Painter Denyse Thomasos, 47, Dies Unexpectedly
Artist Denyse Thomasos, whose semi-abstract paintings evoke an architecture of floating cities, died suddenly yesterday. The cause was an allergic reaction during a diagnostic medical procedure.
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Opinion
Overheard in the Art World
Every Friday (or so), we post things “Overheard in the Art World.” #OHAW Honestly, art world, don’t take yourself so seriously.
Art
Measuring an Artist's Klout
While thinking about how the internet is changing how we find and promote art, it's important to highlight a new tool that might help us understand our online presence: Klout. What is an artist's reach? How many people can be expected to show up for a young artist's solo show? Which critics really m
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The Long, Strange Art and Life of Yayoi Kusama
On the surface of this well-fueled publicity blitz, Yayoi Kusama is a dotty (pun intended) old grandma all about fun, polka dots and puffy balloons, including her eye-popping window display for the Louis Vuitton store on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. On the inside, which all the W magazine air kisse
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Exploring Moscow's Temple of Modernism
If someone were to tell me that I’d have to walk for an hour and a half down a number of unknown streets in the southern part of central Moscow to get from the main building of the State Tretyakov Gallery at 10 Lavrushinsky Lane to its 20th-century counterpart at 10 Krymsky Val, I’d still do it agai
Books
Working Through the End of Art
When the wide-eyed young painter Jim Holl came to New York City in the mid-1970s to study and make art he was shaken by the news that painting, according to the critics, was dead. Holl spent the next 20 years venturing outside the frame to find his place in this post-apocalyptic art world. His memoi
Art
Unnatural Uses
BRISTOL, UK — Do you ever wake up in the morning and think: I must do something with that cow's head today? If so, you have something in common with artist Geza Szollosi.
Interview
Girl of the Southern Wild in Brooklyn
Greenpoint playwright and screenwriter Lucy Alibar mines her childhood for the magical movie 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
Art
Art Rx
This week, queer cinema, posthumanism in the West Village, bulletin board art and a pop-up art bookstore.
News
Are UK Police Cracking Down on Graffiti Artists Ahead of Olympics?
The British blogs and media are buzzing with reports that UK police are visiting the homes of graffiti writers in what appears to be an attempt to scare artists from leaving their mark during the city's Olympic spotlight.
Opinion
Why Going Viral Isn't Always a Good Thing
I love the internet. It's jumbled and weird and mind-numbingly vast. It's also the source of my employment. (Thanks, internet!) But I'm also worried about the internet — specifically the internet and art.
Art
Male Strippers and the Female Gaze
At first glance, Steven Soderbergh’s new film, Magic Mike, is about a charismatic male stripper looking to cash in his gold lamé G-string to pursue his dream of designing (and selling) custom-made furniture. Like many emerging artists that work as art handlers, he’s at a crossroads. He’s in his thir