Art
Mark Boulos at MoMA: "All that Is Solid Melts into Air"
Mark Boulos's two-projector video installation at MoMA, "All that Is Solid Melts into Air" (2008), is a chilling investigation into two separate but entwined worlds.
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Art
Good Intentions and Big Ideas: Feel Good Grants That Exploit Artists and Reduce Arts Funding
The people behind the ZERO1 Fellowship got one thing right — “public policy is increasingly ill-equipped to manage a society with the kind of boundless creativity that technology like the Internet enables.” What they seem to get wrong is the notion that this is a grant program that serves to directl
Opinion
Overheard in the Art World
Every Friday (or so), we post things in “Overheard in the Art World.” #OHAW Honestly, art world, don’t take yourself so seriously.
News
No Room for Old Masters in Berlin
Berlin wants to move a trove of Old Masters paintings to make way for a collection of surrealist art. Jeffrey Hamburger has started a petition in protest.
News
Comics Museum Closes Its Doors (But Will Return)
This week, a lesser-known MoCCA — not LA MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) or New York's MOCA, aka the Museum of Chinese in America — abruptly closed its doors. MoCCA stands for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, which until Monday was housed in suite 401 at 594 Broadway, in Nolita.
Art
Twitter as Art
After thinking through the idea of Tumblr as art, I began to find the difference between various social media platforms glaringly obvious. Marshall McCluhan's phrase "the medium is the message" came to mind. How do settings and mediums change or possibly mandate artistic intention? After exploring T
Interview
New York's First Street Art Auction Happening This Fall
They have been going on for years in Europe, but there hasn't been one in the US, until now. Doyle New York, the Manhattan auction house, will be hosting their Inaugural Street Art Auction on October 16, 2012.
Art
How To Talk About Art: Conceptual Art Edition
You need to read this because you don't want to be caught with your pants down in front of some inexplicable wall full of squiggles: not only will you get arrested (umm…maybe), but you'll look like a schmuck.
Opinion
Censorship, Street Art, Oil and the Future of Venezuela
MIAMI — Years after his election, Hugo Chávez is a galvanizing figure in Venezuela. But what role are street artists playing in Chávezist Venezuela?
Art
Art Rx
This week, use your brain, a small dose of Bushwick, plus alternative art and dance in uptown Manhattan.
Opinion
Edvard Munch's The Scream Is a New Yorker
We now know who owns Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel version "The Scream" that fetched $119.9m at auction earlier this year — New York financier Leon Black.
Books
Six International Authors to Read This Summer
MIAMI — Need a good summer read? Maybe you should pick up books from one of these authors.