Opinion
‘Tis only a flesh wound! Newly-crowned Artinfo deputy editor Ben Davis (née Artnet) posts a rant about the State of Art Criticism, pointing out that even though serious criticism may look dead, it's actually just become increasingly eclipsed by the more hit-friendly version of art writing he deems “
Opinion
Last October, Luzinterruptus participated in the 2010 Poetas por km2 poetry festival in Madrid with an installation of illuminated poems. They filled the garden with 1,000 white envelopes containing poems written by numerous poets specially for the occasion by the poets who participated in the festi
Books
Readers will probably figure out that Anne Beck's artist book State is inspired by the apocalyptic before they read the editorial note that comes at the end of the small volume. The first hints come through in the opening pages: a stark “STATE” in heavy hand lettering that does a horizontal flip on
News
Kriston Capps reports that the iPad protesters previously banned from the Smithsonian are returning to the site of their crimes. This time, artists Michael Blasenstein and Michael Iacovone will stage a fully legal protest by parking a trailer outside the National Portrait Gallery and screening Wojna
Opinion
Now that the dust has somewhat settled on the Wojnarowicz and Blu censorship cases, a number of people have been chiming in about what this tells us about the state of art and our culture, specifically American culture. The numerous opinions from where I stand look dire. Here are some fascinating po
Opinion
Until an artist version of Cribs is invented, the best way we can get inside an artist's life and work is to get inside their studios. Photographs of artists in their studios are kind of like snapshots of an artistic career, a whole body of work compressed into a single room. A working and living sp
Opinion
The LA Times reports that chances look good for Banksy's film Exit Through the Gift Shop to receive a nomination for an Oscar, completely destroying any ideas that Banksy is some kind of anti-establishment bandit. I'm just surprised that Banksy could pull off going even more mainstream than he alrea
Opinion
Youtube is a surprisingly excellent place to see art, and not just the latest glitchy gif set your neighbor came up with. The site is full of historical performance videos, all just a click away. One of the greats is Martha Rosler's performance “Semiotics of the Kitchen” (1975), in which the artist
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News
Even if LA MOCA thinks the Blu Mural Censorship controversy is going to go away, it isn't. The institution has not responded to Hyperallergic's requests for comments on the issue or an unedited interview on the topic of the Blu mural censorship. And now, LA Times's Culture Monster reports on the lat
Art
In a New York magazine article, Justin Davidson calls for the Whitney's Breuer building to be turned into an architecture museum, a space devoted to exposing a side of the practice that we don't normally see. Davidson points out New York's lack of an institution to educate the public about architect
Opinion
Frank Gehry spoke with New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger at 92Y on October 13. Check out this video for the highlights of their conversation, including some inside info on Gehry's new New York City Beekman Tower.
Opinion
Odds are, you're probably doing some traveling in 2011. If you've got places to go, we've got art for you to check out. From Gerhard Richter's retrospective at the Tate to an exhibition of Gertrude Stein's personal collection in San Francisco, here are five exhibitions outside of New York to look fo