In Brief
A New Barbie Doll Channels Andy Warhol
Leave it to Mattel, the maker of the Barbie doll, to fulfill Andy Warhol's famous wish to be plastic.
Andy Warhol
Film
The Refined Sloppiness of a No Wave Cinema Gem
Eric Mitchell once described his 1978 No Wave film Kidnapped as “a 1960s underground movie happening today.”
Art
The Socialist Education of Andy Warhol
Socialism probably isn’t the first political movement you’d think to associate with Andy Warhol.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a cow sculpture gets tipped, Warhol prints get ripped, and Lil Wayne's collection gets raided.
Art
Minimalist Duets in Sculpture and Dance
During the summer of 1960, dance artists Simone Forti, Nancy Meehan and Yvonne Rainer rented rehearsal space at Dance Players on Sixth Avenue so they could improvise together.
Art
The Pioneering 1960s Program that Paired Big-Name Artists with Tech Firms
LOS ANGELES — From the Archives: Art and Technology at LACMA, 1967–1971 is a look back at a pioneering program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which matched leading artists with aerospace and technology companies in the hopes of producing cutting-edge artworks.
Art
Trump’s Menstrala Art Moment: A Short History of Election Art
In certain parlors, the mixing of art and politics is considered vulgar. If so, then vulgarity reigns supreme in the memory of recent presidential elections.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Warhols go missing in Los Angeles, a papier-mâché cat goes up in flames, and vandals attack a dystopian equestrian sculpture.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: thieves boost a bronze Rodin in Copenhagen, man is busted for trying to sell a fake van Gogh, and two works go missing from Slovakia's Andy Warhol museum.
Art
When the Whole World Spoke Pop
MINNEAPOLIS — We do not know what we do not know. That is precisely what the Walker Art Center’s exhibition International Pop makes clear — how much, heretofore, we did not know about the scope and practice of Pop art.
Opinion
Will the Real Stephen Colbert Please Stand Up?
In preparation for his debut on CBS’s The Late Show in September, Stephen Colbert kept his hosting skills sharp by serving as guest host on Monroe, Michigan’s public access talk show Only in Monroe.
Opinion
A Clickhole into Conceptual Video Art
Clickhole, the Onion's clickbait-parodying spin-off, is producing some of the best video art on the internet.