Opinion
Video Candy: A History of John Baldessari as Narrated by Tom Waits
Artist John Baldessari asked Tom Waits to narrate his short history and it's pretty funny.
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OMG…Now I Know: How to Protect Your Antique Statues During an Earthquake
The Getty Museum has come up with a video to demonstrate how to save your precious sculptures during an earthquake. Thanks, Getty!
Art
Digital Homage to the Old Masters
Davide Quagliola (aka Quayola) an Italian digital artist, loves art. He loves his Roman heritage, brimming with Renaissance and Baroque innuendos. And he loves classical images, and the beauty of the algorithm.
Opinion
Graffiti Writer Gets Pwnd by Marc Jacobs
You have to wonder if something is edgy anymore if a fashion label can quickly flip the "transgression" into merchandise within a few days. Case in point … Kidult v. Marc Jacobs.
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Art
The Impossible Curation of Schiaparelli and Prada
It’s inevitable not to compare the new show at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute to last year’s blockbuster, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, however unfair that might be. But it doesn’t matter, because Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, a pairing of two disparate designers
Art
Imaging Urban Park Utopias
This past weekend the renovations of Washington Park and the J.J. Byrne Playground outside the Old Stone House in Park Slope were unveiled to a cacophonous crowd of thrilled children and their parents. Fittingly, I was there to see Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space, Play Space, an exhibit on the second l
Art
A Guide to New York's Auction Houses
There is possibly no better place to witness the titans of the art market — the auction houses — duke it out than in New York. But ever wonder what they're all about? Here's a straightforward guide.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, face recognition software may help art historians solve mysteries, Picasso's lover gets a Gagosian show, the New Aesthetic debate continues, the French elections and art, street art in Houston, Kiki Smith interviews Jenny Holzer and more.
Books
Words Doing as They Want to Do: Image+Text Work by Women
Siglio Press’s anthology of text-based art, It is Almost That, is a rare gem: a book of pivotal works that have received little critical attention. Because of its attention to the obscure, It is Almost That is essential for anyone interested in feminist art, performance studies, cross-genre writing
Art
Moving House: Chuck Webster at ZieherSmith
Chuck Webster is in his early 40s. He has been showing regularly in New York for nearly a decade. This is his sixth show at ZieherSmith since 2003.
Performance
Ashes to Ashes, Words to Dance
The program for Rashaun Mitchell’s Nox contains a lone explanatory note: “When my brother died I made an epitaph for him in the form of a book. This is a replica of it, as close as we could get.” The words belong to the poet Anne Carson, and they come from the back cover of her eponymous book, publi