Opinion
No Comment: The Korean Taco & Basquiat
"The food vendors are like artists" …
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Art
When Controversy and Failure Become Art
In the exhibition Canceled: Alternative Manifestations and Productive Failures at the Center for Book Arts, the documents, language and narrative of controversy, censorship and failure become a new form of work to consider.
Opinion
A Visit to Caine’s Arcade
It's always a strange feeling when you meet the internet in person. This past weekend, I had the great pleasure of visiting Caine's Arcade, a young boy's makeshift cardboard arcade out in East L.A. that became an internet sensation.
Art
Cleaning Up Public Art
CHICAGO — As long as there have been cars, there has been automotive grime. And as long as there has been grime, there has been grime graffiti. You know, the sarcastic messages drawn into the dirt with the end of a finger, saying "Wash Me Now!" or "Clean Me Quick!" British artist Ben Long has decide
Art
K8 Hardy, Please Sashay Away
Fashion as a basis for genuine artistic work may be dead. Even when it's properly approached and used, as in Cindy Sherman’s fashion editorial series or the early installations of artists-cum-couturiers Zowie Broach and Brian Kirkby under the Boudicca label, I tend to find that the medium isn’t bein
Community
A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — A peek at studios in New York, France, Connecticut and Germany.
Opinion
New Aesthetic Watch: 8-Bit Pop-up Cards
LOS ANGELES — Open source cards that bring a bit of the virtual to the real world.
Art
The South African President vs The Painting: A Saga in Many Parts
A painting by Brett Murray of the South African President has caused outrage among the ANC faithful but the subsequent acts of vandalism raise questions for which there are no easy answers.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, photojournalists and defense contractors, whither Flickr, Michelangelo's fortifications, a guide to public art in NY this summer, Frank Gehry's chess set, artist lists and more.
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (May 2012)
This week, reviews of Esperanza Spalding, Madonna, Black Dice, Spoek Mathambo, All-American Rejects, Rusko, Jack White and Chromatics.
Art
A Man Without a Camera
Marco Breuer is best known for the photographs that he makes without using a camera. (He does other sorts of photography, but this body of work is largely what we know about his endeavors). Rather than pointing at a moment that is gone, and wresting fixity from flux, as photographs are said to do, B
Performance
Dancing with Jack
Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson met in 2008. Both grew up in rural America, both are queer, both have created imaginary worlds. Two Alike, which premiered at The Kitchen last weekend, is their first collaboration, in which Swanson provides the setting for Ferver’s dreams and nightmares.