Art
Mirror, Mirror
What do we see when we look at art? What do we want to see? Answers come readily and are various: we seek beauty; enlightenment; pleasure; escape from ourselves; insight into those same selves.
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Reports from Last Night's Bushwick Panel
Last night's "Confronting Bushwick" was attended by roughly 120 people and there are already two excellent reports published online about the event … not to mention the tweets.
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Rembrandt in America
BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA — The Rembrandt in America show at the North Carolina Museum of Art is the largest Rembrandt show ever staged in America, containing 47 works.
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Lewd Monkey Goddesses, Luminous Death and Sequined Birth
Monica Cook’s Volley features a full cast of blemished bedazzled half-human, half-monkey sculptures. When I asked one viewer what he thought his response was, “It’s pretty dark, I mean, this ain’t no Winnie the Pooh you know …”
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As Whitney Biennial Approaches, Museum's Art Handlers Face Potential Labor Dispute [UPDATED]
First Sotheby's, and now the Whitney. While the Teamsters of Local 814 have been fighting with Sotheby's since August for a better contract, a new labor dispute has cropped up for the art handlers of Local 966 that work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Occupy Museums Writes Letter to MoMA, Demands Stand on Sotheby's Lockout
On the heels of their rally at the Museum of Modern Art last Friday, the following focused and powerful letter arrived in our inbox 15 minutes ago from Occupy Museums.
Art
Livestreaming the City Through Police Radio
LOS ANGELES — Drawing inspiration from Robin Rimbaud and the lovely Mission Control site by soma.fm, artist Eric Eberhardt decided to turn police chatter and online radio into a media landscape.
Opinion
Absolutely No Comment: Berlin Press Release Edition
This morning, I received the following image of a press release from a Berlin gallery show and I was speechless.
Opinion
A Twisted Game of Life Highlights the Pitfalls of the Creative Process
Ah, the mysteries of the creative process. Now an infographic by Viruscomix shows its twists and turns in a labyrinthine landscape. Is it accurate?
Opinion
Get This Season's It Bag, Courtesy of Leonardo da Vinci
Based upon sketches drawn round the time he worked on "The Last Supper" (15th C.), an Italian fashion house is introducing a new bag designed by the original Renaissance man himself.
Art
Films Born Out of Drawings
James Fotopulous's charcoal drawings develop during the process of his filmmaking. They are currently on view at Microscope Gallery.
Art
Like American Haikus in Paint
Like the Jack Kerouac's three line poems, Lois Dodd is able to capture the essence of her subjects through simplicity and directness of expression.