Art
For this week's Art Rx dig into shows at both galleries and museums, plus an art fair, The Outsider Art Fair. There's also plenty to see (and eat) at MoMA PS1 this weekend and a show of comic books relating to Tibet at the Reuben Museum of Art that we are sure won't disappoint.
Opinion
Sure there was collage and assemblage before him, but what Pop artist James Rosenquist did in the 1960s is probably closer to our contemporary sensibilities about remix culture with its flattening of disparate images using a similar aesthetic to unify jarring visuals.
Art
How do you make your iPhone act more like your SLR? Well, Chicago-based Ben Syverson has an app for that.
Opinion
Yayoi Kusama seems to reinforce popular notions of the artist who battles with some form of madness.
Opinion
Floating around Twitter and Sina Weibo as of late has been my new favorite blog, Yowayowa Camera Woman Diary. Lifted to the web by Tokyo-based photographer Natsumi Hayashi, the diary features a series of "daily levitations," as Hayashi drifts through the hustle and bustle of her city.
Community
CHICAGO — The third installment of a series in which artists (Barbara Rosenthal, Michelle Muldrow, John Tomlinson, Julia Schwartz and Meghann Snow) send in a photo and a description of their workspace.
Opinion
A spotted judgment pops up on the streets of Paris. And someone goes in stoned (we think) to the Hirst show in LA.
Art
The idea of an art meme feels counterintuitive: art is supposed to reflect deep issues about society and self, or at least be technically complex, while memes are quick hacks about cats, shit people say and dancing Obamas. But this past year, the internet has been seeing a ton of new memes that invo
News
W.A.G.E. seems to be very clear about positioning themselves in a sphere that is realistic for the creative field and with viable and attainable goals. The question now it seems is how to make a payment system sustainable. An experiment at Artists Space is the first attempt at making that happen.
Art
"Everybody ought to go careful in a city like this," Joseph Cotten's character Holly Martins is warned in The Third Man, the classic 1949 film noir that takes place in a war fractured Vienna. The line came into my head while viewing the photographs in Weegee: Murder is My Business at the Internation
Opinion
The Brit-gone-LA artist was grabbing headlines earlier this month for his supposed swipe against Damien Hirst but now it's his turn to take criticism from someone who knows his work, a former professor.
News
Yesterday marked the beginning of MoMA’s newest educational program Print/Studio. The printmaking studio and workshop program plans to engage visitors with various processes of printmaking, and it was organized in conjunction with the museum’s upcoming Print/Out exhibition.