Books
The Photographs of A Changed Landscape
Altered Landscape is a collection of over 900 photographs, spanning the last fifty years, by hundreds of contemporary photographers, all of whom have helped to redefine contemporary landscape photography.
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Opinion
Getty Launches Pacific Standard Time Archive (Plus Advice for Artists Needing $$)
The Getty has launched a comprehensive Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Center archive online for art-lovers slash internet-junkies.
News
The Drawing Center Returns, Doubled in Size!
After a year of renovations, The Drawing Center will open its doors at 35 Wooster Street on Thursday, September 13, 2012. The $9.6 million expansion gives the non-profit a hearty 9,150 square feet of space for three separate galleries, doubling its previous size.
Art
Is the New Aesthetic a Thing? Searching for Signs in Tupac and Google
LOS ANGELES — So much has been said about the New Aesthetic. But is it a thing?
Community
A View from the Easel, Part 12
CHICAGO — This week, artists from California, Cologne, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Minnesota open up their studios.
Opinion
Tantric Paintings: Some Observations
PUNE, INDIA — It has been some time now that I have been reading and looking at pictures of abstract Tantric paintings coming from Rajasthan, India. I have seen a couple of artists referring to them in their video interviews while elaborating on the topic of non-objective art, and then there was the
Opinion
Aerial Photos Show Patterns of Life from Above
Photographer Alex MacLean got his pilot's license and has been capturing amazing views from above.
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Bid on Contemporary Art in the BAMart Silent Auction
Own a piece of contemporary art and help support America’s oldest performing arts organization by bidding in the Eighth Annual BAMart Silent Auction. With works across all media and bids beginning at $200, there is something for every collector out there. The auction is powered by Paddle8, and BAM w
Art
Art and Science Get Intimate
A lot has changed since novelist and physicist C.P. Snow’s assertion in the 1960s that Western intellectual life was split between two irreconcilable cultures: the arts and the sciences. Around that time, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) was just beginning its efforts to bridge those two s
Opinion
Versus-Hearts is All About Rivalry
Dan Matutina's Versus/Hearts tumblelog contrasts rivals in a loving heart-shaped embrace.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, reflections on the death of Thomas Kinkade, the real-life location of The Simpsons's Springfield, Ai Weiwei sues Chinese tax collectors, Beijing's "rat tribe," Snarkitecture, a Keith Haring mural is threatened in Paris, a look at Exit art, the average age of social media users and cats im
Art
Why There Are Great Artists (Part 3)
The rigorous parameters that Sylvia Plimack Mangold established in her earlier bodies of work (the floor paintings and the landscapes framed by “tape”) continue to inform her paintings of individual trees (specifically the maple, elm, locust, and pink oak), which have been focus of her attention sin