Art
The new year is always a time of idealism. We want to improve ourselves, lose weight, find success in a new career: everyone has high aspirations. Why shouldn’t we do the same for the art world? Here’s a list of resolutions I have for the contemporary art community in 2011. There are some suggestion
Opinion
It's the New Year all over again, and aside from going out and partying, there's not much in the New Year to look forward to yet. I'm finding myself starting at empty calendar and wondering what to fill it up with. Why not schedule in some art? It's never to early to start that exhibition calendar g
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Ever wanted to be a Chinese red soldier that shoots fireballs instead of spouting slogans, and battles aliens instead of Nationalists? I know, me too. Finally, we all have a chance to play out our CCP fantasies with Feng Mengbo's epic, historicizing video game “Long March: Restart” (2008), now on vi
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In the latest of a long series of environmental mishaps that have attended the artist's environmental installations, Christo's “Over the River” project continues to be plagued by worries that the planned piece will harm its surroundings. This time, the concern is that the installation will interrupt
Art
The purpose of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' new Art of the Americas wing to provide a space to tell the entire story of American art. Yet visitors may be surprised to find the ground floor of the new wing occupied by Aztec, Mayan and Native American art, sharing space with early colonial work. Th
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Earlier this month, I sent out a call for comments on #Rank [http://www.hashtagclass.com/], a project created by artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton, who were the masterminds behind #Class (Winkleman Gallery, February 2010). The following are the responses we received from across the country
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New York City was originally a colony of the Dutch, so maybe it's no coincidence that the aftermath of Sunday and Monday's storm put me in mind of some Netherland Baroque landscapes. Here's Hendrick Avercamp's 1608 “Winter Landscape with Iceskaters”. Click through for some more of my favorite winter
Art
Sometimes, the internet is boring. It's a tough truth to bear, but it is true nonetheless, and I deal with that fact when it rears its ugly head. But what brightens up those dreary internet days for me aren't just the websites I check out for news and info, they're the personalities that I rely on t
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This video, "Art Money" was created by San Francisco-based artist Spencer Keeton Cunningham [http://spencercunningham.com] & Erlin Geffrard as one part of "an on going work in progress of contemporary art videos." The music is by Kool Kid Kreyola and Spencer Keeton Cunningham. This is all obviously
Art
How many of the estimated 46,000 artists, dealers, collectors, and lookyloos that checked in at Art Basel Miami Beach actually made the 35-minute car trip from the stunning South Beach to industrial Wynwood for the Seven Art Fair is still unclear. Seven was to Basel what Independent New York was to
Books
In the history of street art, New York's Dan Witz is a pioneer and one of the only names in the field that continues to enjoy an impeccable reputation based on skill, reinvention, and innovation. Yet, his monograph In Plain View is more than your conventional street art book. Its 220+ pages document
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San Francisco Rainbow over the Bay Bridge [http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5248/5284998586_1cb98ba7d0_z.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/redpilotmedia/5284998586/ This stunning photo was taken by photographer and Bay Area tech host Lisa Bethany. She has blogged a step-by-step guide on how she create