Art
Lights Out? Detroit's Quick Fix
DETROIT — The clichés of 1960s drug culture are now on full display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit during Joshua White & Gary Panter’s Light Show.
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Watch Performance Art Live from Home Tonight
If you're hoping to see some art tonight but also don't want to leave your couch, we have a solution: Beginning at 8:30 pm, the international internet performance art festival Low Lives will begin broadcasting online, with performances from artists around the world, including a number in Brooklyn.
Opinion
Patently Interesting Patent Art
LOS ANGELES — In the great pipeline of innovation, we always hear about that spark of genius, the agonizing product development, the design team debates, and then at least the final product rolling out on shelves. But one item is typically lost in this narrative: the patent.
Opinion
Lego-Scale Architecture Made Large
LOS ANGELES — Brazilian artist Valentino Fialdini, who specializes in architectural photography, has made some works of his own using Lego.
Art
Art Rx
The weather in nice in New York and there's lots to see. From MFA shows at Hunter & Columbia to a new solo show by Cindy Sherman and an exhibition that responds to the murder of Trayvon Martin so get out of your house or apartment and see art.
Art
My Mother, Me and the Armenian Genocide
Like almost every April 24th I can remember, on Tuesday, the day people commemorate the Armenian Genocide, I sought solace in my thoughts and searched for a way to mark the occasion.
Opinion
A Hundred Flowers Bloom When China Invades
LOS ANGELES — Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom is a photographic series by Los Angeles artist Mei Xian Qiu that imagines the Chinese takeover of America.
Opinion
A Diverse Survey of Gay Men in America
LOS ANGELES — A book by Scott Pasfield explores the diversity of America's gay male community.
Art
Analogue's Last Gasp
Though Micheal Wenyon and Susan Gamble's show A Universe held up for Inspection focuses on displays of holograms and other works, the real raison d'ete of this exhibit is to reveal the frisson erupting over the last gasp of the analogue picture.
Opinion
Posters Distill Philosophy Into Simple Visuals
LOS ANGELES — Designer Genis Carreras attempts to distill complex philosophical topics into clean, minimal posters.
News
New Academic Journal and MIT Center for Arts and Technology to Launch
LOS ANGELES — Lots of srsbsns with the arts and technology in the news lately. What caught my eye was a new Center for Arts, Science and Technology at MIT and a new academic journal, the Journal for Digital Humanities.
Opinion
An App to Rate Everything, and They Mean Everything
LOS ANGELES — We rate our friends. We rate our friends' pictures. We rate our friends' status updates. We rate the restaurants we frequent. We rate the meals we ate. The shows we watched. The books we've read. Why not rate everything? Enter Jot.ly.