Art
Art Students Reconstruct the Lost Faces of Unidentified Crime Victims
Last month, students in the Forensic Sculpture Workshop at the New York Academy of Art (NYAA) made faces for 11 anonymous skulls belonging to unidentified victims of crimes.
Art
Art
Cyberfeminists Go Deep on Big Data, Privacy, and Surveillance
In mid-December, 12 hackers, artists, coders, and activists gathered to tackle issues of privacy, surveillance, anonymity, and big data as they manifest in our society.
Art
The Real-Life Applications of "Post-Internet" Art
LONDON — The best works on view in this seven-artist selection are "post-internet" experiments (sorry) that probe the ways in which the internet has reconfigured, and continues to reconfigure, such charged arenas as identity, surveillance, and labor.
Art
ArtRx NYC
After a week of snow, you probably want to shake off the flakes and do something fun.
Art
Why Is No One Talking About Libya's Cultural Destruction?
Over the past few years, Libya has been making archaeology headlines not for the exciting new discoveries there, but for the ruthless cultural destruction.
Art
Performers Shower Tate Britain with Fake Pounds Over Oil Money Ties
LONDON — It’s 10am on the last Saturday of January, and Tate Britain is predictably sleepy. The museum has just opened its doors for the day, and a modest coterie of visitors treads lightly to preserve the morning hush.
Art
Inside the Christian Pockets of the Middle East
In the United States, Canada or Europe, where Christians form the religious majority, it's strange to consider parts of the world where they are not only uncommon, but also persecuted.
Art
Can Computers Interpret Art?
Novice Art Blogger records the impressions of a computer encountering abstract and representational art from the Tate's digitized collection for the first time.
Art
Jeff Koons: Shiny on the Outside, Hollow on the Inside, Part 2
I wrote most of the first two sections of this essay (Part 1) in March 2011, but never submitted it anywhere. I think I lost interest in the subject. I thought I wrote it well before the negative critiques would surely come rolling in, even before Koons’s retrospective at the Whitney in 2014.
Art
An Extraordinary Studio Artist in a Post-Studio Era
As I have written previously, there is a lot of very good painting going on these days. It is just that you are not likely to see much of it at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at least in recent memory.
Art
Enigmas of the Visible: Paintings by Anne Tabachnick
We usually describe seeing an object by using the past tense: "I saw." The emphasis on its foreclosed quality can make us forget how open-ended seeing is. The dynamism of a seen object is every bit as charged as our bodies' initial physiological responses to it.
Art
Jeff Koons: Shiny on the Outside, Hollow on the Inside, Part 1
Shiny on the outside, hollow on the inside. That is how the work of the American artist, Jeff Koons, has been generally described and received, not only by those who are less than affectionate toward it but also by those who like it.