Art
Lynn Aquaheart of Conway, Arkansas, mailed us a a small canvas in an envelope covered with objects (and an animal) that fly. Inside was a small canvas painted light blue and covered with an inspiring message. We're not sure if she meant it as a slogan for art in general or a commentary on mail art s
Opinion
American politics has always been deeply connected to spectacle. Yesterday, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) delivered a one-minute "speech" on the floor of the House of US Reps and it was pure art.
Art
On the internet exhibition space The State, a Tumblr-based website, artist Chris Collins has published “tyepilot.com”. The text and image-based essay riffs off the artist's discovery of a hidden cache of spam images advertising work-from-home internet jobs. Tyepilot's images are remarkably reminisce
News
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been missing for 12 days without official charge from the Chinese government. In protest, artists and activists all over the world are planning a global sit-in this Sunday, April 17 at 1 pm, staking out Chinese embassies with 1001 Chairs for Ai Weiwei, a take on Ai Weiwe
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Announcement
This Saturday, April 16 and Sunday, April 17 at 8pm, Dia Art Foundation will present multimedia and theater artist Robert Whitman's Passport project at Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York and at the Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair, New Jersey. This ambitious new work combines non-narrative, imagist
Opinion
Fair use is a term we hear bandied about all the time nowadays (Shepard Fairey vs. AP, Patrick Cariou vs. Richard Prince, etc.), but what is it really? The library of the University of Minnesota wants to help you out.
Opinion
In his final column for Frieze, writer, painter and star curator Robert Storr calls art writers (himself included) “bottom feeders,” and constructs an elaborate metaphor for writers as the “squid” of the art world — swimming in their own ink. This is the “cruel, Darwinian truth,” says Storr, yet the
Art
Since we sent out a request for mail art, we've received 27 mail art submissions from five countries (Belgium, Canada, Spain, the United States and Uruguay) and nine US states (Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Vermont). The work we're featuring today
Books
Lapham's Quarterly is a quarterly (duh) publication edited by Lewis Lapham (also duh), former Harper's Magazine editor from 1976 to 1981. Each issue of the staid, stately magazine focuses on a single theme; previous themes have included “The City,” “Sports & Games,” and “About Money.” Drawing on wri
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The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has given out one of its annual “Jefferson Muzzle” awards to Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough for his removal of David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” video and censoring of Hide/Seek at the National Portrait Gallery. That's o
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The list of domestic spending cuts for the new national budget announced by the US government this morning includes $13 million in funding cuts for both the NEA and the NEH, but that's just the start of the damage. $8.5 million has been cut from the NGA budget, and reduced funding to a program that