Opinion
LOS ANGELES — The Polaroid is dead. Long live the Polaroid. They used to be a staple at any gathering, and then one day, they weren't. Those tangible remembrances of fine times had soon turned into cell phone camera snaps and then Facebook and Flickr albums. And now they're Instagram pictures.
Opinion
The infographic above appeared in the April edition of National Geographic, and it demonstrates that the American addiction to digital images has created a huge surplus of pixels that tell us what most of us already know, people like to take A LOT of photos.
Art
In his first solo show, Bernard Klevickas has staged the space of Orchard Windows Gallery on the Lower East Side for contemplating industrial process and the aesthetics of machinery and its methods. Turbulence is a small, but detailed, show of sculptures created between 2002 and 2012 from metal and
Art
Corinna Belz’s new documentary, Gerhard Richter Painting (playing at Manhattan's Film Forum from now until March 27), offers a rare glimpse into the life and work of the celebrated and self-proclaimed “secretive” German artist. For a little more than 90 minutes, we watch Richter labor over two new p
Art
The experience of visiting the new SBM Gallery in what was once the nether regions of Manhattan's West Side is disorienting in all the right ways.
Art
MIAMI — As with any developing city the arts community is in continual search for large and affordable work and exhibition space. Miami’s Wynwood Art District and later Design District have been for over a decade hubs for artists and galleries moving into large warehouse and empty storefront spaces.
News
The BMW Guggenheim Lab came and went from Manhattan's Lower East Side without much incident but now the Berlin leg of the Atelier Bow-Wow-designed structure's world tour is being cancelled because of what organizers are claiming are threats of violence from left-wing anarchist groups.
Community
CHICAGO — The eighth installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. This week, Amsterdam, NYC, Wilmington, NC and Columbus, GA.
Books
LOS ANGELES — I hear it again and again in the art world. So many brilliant artists with great creative work, and yet so many of them tell me that they don't have the first idea on how to start promoting their work and making sales. Enter The Profitable Artist.
Art
It was a good day because I saw two solid solo exhibitions by Amy Wilson and Lucy Fradkin. Both artists find inspiration in naïve art and the miniature painting of Persia, India and Northern Europe, but they use their inspirations to different ends.
Opinion
A commenter, Chicken_Fingers, reminded us about this episode of The Antiques Roadshow from Tulsa, Oklahoma, that aired on January 9, 2012.
Art
When the list of the 2012 Whitney Biennial artists was made public, it included a very interesting trio of names, probably not immediately recognizable to most of the visual arts world: choreographers Sarah Michelson and Michael Clark, and theater director/playwright Richard Maxwell. All three are e