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[Sponsor] Join the Williamsburg Every 2:ND Friday Art Crawl - Friday Nov 11, 6-9PM

This Friday, Nov 11th, from 6-9pm, join Williamsburg Every 2:ND Friday, presented by AT&T, for an Art Crawl to over 15 galleries in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Opinion

Your Weekly Art Rx: Museum Fever!

Get out the syringe, it's time for your shot of art for the week. We promise it won't be painful. This week the medicine comes in the form of museum exhibitions both big and small, including Sherrie Levine's retrospective at the Whitney, the much anticipated opening of the Met's Islamic wing, and ro

News

Devilish Giotto Discovery Ups His Art Historical Cred

In today's dose of art history geek news, we turn to the Daily Mail, which reports that "art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous [13th C.] frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi."

Interview

A New Yorker in Detroit

DETROIT — Wouldn’t it be refreshing if an outside artist came to Detroit and focused on the nuanced, complex nature of Detroit? I mean, the abandoned building narrative is not really that original or thought provoking is it? By now I think the only dialogue an artist could illicit would be, “oh, poo

Opinion

Satirical Magazine French Kisses Mohammad

Last week, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published an image of Mohammad on its cover saying, "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!" Sadly, some right-wing muslim zealots firebombed the headquarters of the magazine, but don't think that shut up the publication. No siree, this week t

Art

Medical Museum Invites Artists in to Probe Illness

CHICAGO — I didn’t even know the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago existed until a few weeks ago, much less that it has a regular schedule of exhibitions. I certainly didn’t expect the current show, called Body of Work, to be one of the best things I’ve seen as part of Chicago Arti

Art

Reconnecting and Exploring the Love of Looking With Nan Goldin

Don’t you love attending a high profile art opening on a Friday night and instead of getting a nice big glass of vino, being handed a plastic cup of imported mineral water? Forget about TGIF. Obviously, we all have to suffer if the artist is in recovery and the legendary bad girl photographer Nan Go

News

OWS Arts Asks Sculptor to Urge City to Remove Barricades Around His Art [UPDATED]

We’ve covered the way members of Occupy Wall Street have grappled with the Mark di Suvero sculpture at the corner of Zuccotti Park. They’ve called it a “weird red thing” and some think of it as corporate art, but now the Arts and Culture Working Group of OWS is making an appeal to the artist to help

Announcement

[Sponsor] University of Technology, Sydney Seeks Candidates for Four Associate Professor Positions

Located in the city centre of Sydney, Australia, the UTS School of Design [http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/] is engaged in teaching and research situated within a wider domain of cultural production in dialogue with both the Faculty and the University. The school is currently expanding, creating a small n

Art

Folk Art Meets Global Aspirations in a Victorian Curiosity Shop

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — “Wow bizzarro!” I hear a visitor exclaim with a delighted grin as they walk out the front door of the San Angel Folk Art gallery. The venue is one of those quirky finds one relishes during an art tour in a new city. It offers a colorful breath of fresh air to a predominating whi

Opinion

André Leon Talley's New Gallery in Georgia

The Vogue Editor-at-Large seems like a caricature of the fashion industry, but his newly crowned gallery at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s museum shows a quieter, more intellectual side of him as a philanthropist and curator.

Performance

69°S. Explores Antarctica at the BAM 2011 Next Wave Festival

The alien remoteness of Antarctica has probably never been better depicted on stage than in 69°S., a marionette theatre experience presented at the BAM 2011 Next Wave Festival by performance ensemble Phantom Limb. I write "experience" because I'm not really sure what else to call this.