Art
Mounting an exhibition anywhere in the neighborhood of occupation aesthetics can be precarious nowadays, for people are increasingly fed up with the same reiterations of ideological conceptualism and the ultra–politically correct, derivative works that skim the surface of real world problems precipi
News
If you've ever wanted to see a dancing dog — and not just any dog, but one of William Wegman's Weimaraners — you're about to get your chance. Choreographer Karole Armitage has teamed up with a handful of visual artists, including Wegman, Will Cotton, Kalup Linzy and Aïda Ruilova, for a dance-cum-per
Opinion
LOS ANGELES — Orwell's "Why I Write" is a gem, and I'm glad it made it into Longform's recent Top 50.
Opinion
LOS ANGELES — Expanding on the question as to while most artists are poor, one project explores who isn't getting paid what they're owed.
Announcement
This summer United Photo Industries is taking the next step in helping to create an extraordinary global community of artists. Working in partnership with local galleries, national institutions and an international network of curatorial partners, United Photo industries is building Photoville — a un
Art
With plans in the offing for Jeff Koons’s astounding “Train” to dangle preposterously over the heedless noggins of visitors to the High Line, it might just be a good time to polish up your talking points regarding the greatest of all kitsch artists.
News
WTC1 may have reached the 100-floor mark on April 2, but today, April 30, it has officially surpassed the Empire State Building (1,250 ft./381 m) as the tallest building in New York.
Art
A few weekends ago, I drove to Urbana, Illinois, to take in the Boneyard Arts Festival, a four-day program of open studios, readings, concerts and performances.
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Opinion
Ossian Ward has a feature in Art in America this month about the dismaying trend of bigness in the contemporary art world. The piece is an exploration of a problem that's only been growing (no pun intended): art as a series of bigger and better spectacles, upstaged only by the vast and cavernous spa
Art
When I visited JODI’s current exhibition, Street Digital, at the Museum of the Moving Image, I wondered how the notorious duo would take their earlier net art practices into the “street” (or gallery). Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans of JODI became well-known in the 1990s for upending traditional in
Opinion
LOS ANGELES — Instagram is all about self expression, capturing a moment and sharing it with fun filters. Pinterest is also a form of self expression, a way to curate what you like into one page, thus broadcasting yourself to the world as a person of taste (or lack thereof, if that's your goal).