News
Ai Weiwei Blocked From Court, His Legal Consultant Goes Temporarily Missing
Today, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was harassed by police in an attempt to block him from attending his scheduled court appearance at the Beijing tax bureau.
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Interview
America Runs On Graff: An Interview with Moody
Even though both genres risk their freedom by putting their art up on the streets, the worlds of graffiti writing and street art are often separated and even completely antagonistic. Rarely does a graffiti writer turn into a street artist or vice versa. Enter Moody, aka Mutz.
Interview
A New Currency for the Internet
Though its merely a global system of interconnected computers, the internet truly exists within its own spatial realm, in many ways a world each of us are citizens of in addition to our own countries. It lacks, however, its own unique and universal superstructures established in the physical world l
Opinion
The Effects of Jaws, a Classic Turns 37
Truth be told, Jaws changed things. And tomorrow the film turns 37.
Art
Tumblr as Art
Much has been written about the rise of internet art. We’ve seen URL, Twitter and Google Docs works. But until recently I hadn’t encountered Tumblr art.
Art
At Greenpoint Open Studios, Wacky, Weird and Beautiful Art
From the Pencil Factory to the Fowler Arts Collective to tons of individual artist studios, the Northside Art Festival's Open Spaces proved that Greenpoint remains a calmer, more meditative home for artists in comparison with the bustling hipster streets of Williamsburg. While wandering around, I di
News
Picasso: The Art Vandal's Choice
Picasso's 1929 painting "Conquista La Bestia" ("Conquer the Beast") was vandalized last week at Houston's Menil Collection by a man with a can of spray paint. According to the city's Local 2 news, he stenciled the image of a bullfighter killing a bull with the word "conquista" underneath.
Announcement
The Avant/Garde Diaries: "Redirect Our Medium"
The Avant/Garde Diaries [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/9990/17822/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/28517/0] is a digital interview magazine that documents artists on the forefront of their creative field. In each article a featured diarist speaks about people or individual works of ar
Art
The Cups of War
LOS ANGELES — Ceramist and former US Marine Ehren Tool is exhibiting 1,000 cups decorated with decals of soldiers’ photos and sculptural reliefs shaped like medals and bombs. In his first solo exhibition, Ehren Tool: Production or Destruction, ceramist and former Marine Ehren Tool is exhibiting a th
Books
A Comic Book Written on the Streets
Paging through New York-born, Brazil-based street artist Tito na Rua's Street Comics Vol. 1, a story of the search for lost love through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, I couldn't help but become fascinated by the possibilities of a narrative being told in the streets, even though I'm not the biggest
Art
Giving an Artistic Voice to a Neighborhood, Northside Art Attempts Many Conversations
As the official group exhibition of the Northside Art Festival, Many Conversations was a multilayered dialogue between 26 artists who either live or work in North Brooklyn. Curated by Peter Gynd, the show aimed to formally introduce the local community of artists to each other and to their audience,
Art
A Journey Through Northside Art 2012
This week's Northside Art was a combination block party and studio crawl and here some of the many things I saw.