Art
At the new Art of the Americas wing at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, four floors of galleries tell the story of American art in a new expansion designed by architect Norman Foster. The expansion marks a big moment for the museum, whose collection of American art (particularly colonial North American
Books
Triple Canopy is an online art publication that funds, produces and publishes some of the most interesting digital contemporary art projects around. Less journal than showcase, Triple Canopy still doesn't lack for critical dialogue. Art projects coexist with written text and the whole package is wra
Interview
The radical performance art collective, Voina, has been challenging the Russian authorities for years but on November 15 two of their artists, co-founder Oleg Vortonikov and Leonid Nikolayev, were arrested for a performance this past summer that involved the overturning of a cop car as part of an an
Announcement
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News
Fighting the perception that all Catholics are as conservative as those espoused in William Donohue's Catholic League call for the Smithsonian to remove David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” from Hide/Seek, Catholics United has begun a petition calling for closer scrutiny Donohue's organization.
Art
Skye Parrott's "Greyhound, NYC" (2010) is one of 25 images in the First Love, Last Rites show at Capricious Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The show "documents" 18 months of her life that represent a void filled by a relationship with a boy and drugs, both of which eventually ended.
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At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' new Wing of the Americas, the story of American art is told over the course of four floors, ranging from colonial and indigenous art through modernism. Stopping before contemporary, the third floor above ground level is the home of American modernism. The opening g
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BushwickBK's Stephen Truax, who also contributes to this blogazine, reports on Luhring Augustine's new Bushwick space [http://bushwickbk.com/2010/12/20/chelsea-gallery-buys-into-bushwick/]: > "The new building is primarily going to be our storage facility, but we hope > to have at least a quarter o
Opinion
As far as the year in social media goes, Twitter is far and away my choice for a handy source of updates, information and air-testing inside the art world or out. Pretty much anything that you want to know about gets broadcast into your Twitter stream with a good enough group of follows. To the end
Opinion
Critic, writer and independent game developer Ian Bogost has created a suite of four games entitled “A Slow Year.” Comprised of a set piece about each of the four seasons, Bogost has made video games into meditations, interactive haiku meant to slow down the player instead of them speed up. Kotaku [
Art
Abstract Expressionist New York shines a bright and bold light on Jackson Pollock. Although the selection on view is obviously not as extensive as MoMA’s major retrospective in 1998-99, the show is still a rare and precious opportunity to see many of Pollock’s paintings under one roof. His paintings
Art
We're approaching a pivotal point in the progress of performance art in which the once rogue medium is becoming canonized, institutionalized and historicized. If the epic Marina Abramović retrospective at MoMA, The Artist is Present, wasn't enough to convince you that the early group of performance