News
With artists like Rikrit Tirivanija preparing meals for gallery goers, art lovers are no strangers to food and fine art sharing a dinner plate. But what about concentrating on food itself as an art form? The Umami: Food and Art Festival is a biennial that does just that.
News
Sand art is about to take on a whole new meaning. MIT has recently announced "smart sand."
Opinion
After Gagosian collected Bob Dylan into his roster of artist for an underwhelming exhibition in his Upper East Side gallery, it's hard to take these celebrity-turned-artists seriously.
Opinion
LOS ANGELES — We were all gathered outside the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary space near the Arts District, waiting patiently for the show to start. We'd lined up around the block, and I quietly wondered when things would get going and suddenly it seemed like a giant fireball was h
Community
CHICAGO — The eleventh installment of a series with a look at artist studios in Belgrade, New York City, London, Kansas City and Brooklyn.
Opinion
Today, Facebook announced that it has acquired the hugely popular smartphone photo-sharing app, Instagram, and in the process further consolidating its position as the biggest visual archive in the world.
News
A new hologram exhibit at the New Museum features major contemporary artists (including Bruce Nauman, Louise Bourgeois, Eric Orr, Ed Ruscha and James Turrell) and may change your understanding of the medium.
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Announcement
Norte Maar invites you to The Brodmann Areas [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/12452/12490/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/19152/0], a new collaborative ballet that explores the workings of our minds through dance. The ballet will take place at the Center for Performance Research (361 M
Art
PARIS — In a recent article on AFC, Paddy Johnson argues that Werner Herzog’s piece in this year’s Whitney Biennial is essentially a throwaway. She sees Herzog’s contribution as a quick fix for inclusion that relies mainly on “bells and whistles” rather than substance. But her account is conspicuous
Opinion
This week, the New Aesthetic, the Steins, Creative Time's mission to push culture forward, Yung Jake's Embedded, Eggleston goes from photography to contemporary art, Klaus Biesenbach's tweets, Kickstarter vs NEA, art on The Simpsons and more.
Art
Stanley Whitney is in his mid-sixties. By his own account, he struggled in the studio from the early 70s to the late 80s, “just trying to make work.” The issue was to make something that was his, rather than to make something that was the right or approved of thing to do. Although it is seldom discu
Books
In July 2004, The New York Times Magazine signaled the advent of the “literary” comic book and described how a significant group of cartoonists — including Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Seth and Marjane Satrapi — had popularized these “comics with a brain.”