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ArtRx LA
This week, we have a handy map for your LA art adventures, Orange County trots out the avant-garde, Made in LA is closing, ACME celebrates 20 years, Doug Aitken has a new show, and lots more.
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Tracing a Lineage of Tech-Minded Women Artists
It's hard now to go more than a couple months without stumbling across another exhibition showing "artists [who] question the boundary between art and technology." It's enough to make you never give another crap about the boundary between art and technology. But I'm not sure the artists involved in
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A Crocheted Phantasmagoria on the Hudson
YONKERS, New York — Blood falls over a compass rose circled slowly by turkey vultures, while in another room a pelican goddess spits out the Milky Way in a celestial swirl of beads and shredded fabric.
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Recovering the History of Sound in Video Games
The sound of video games has transformed from something seemingly mechanical accenting action to incredibly elaborate acoustic landscapes setting the mood for play. To preserve this history, and show why it's worth exploring, a new documentary and archive project are underway.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, New York is back in swing and for the next few weeks you will be inundated with more art events than you can imagine.
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Philistine, or What Happens When You Break a Sculpture in a Gallery
"Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting," someone famously quipped once — maybe Ad Reinhardt or Barnett Newman.
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The Art Trophies from When the White House Went Up in Flames
The 200th anniversary of the burning of the White House passed without much hullabaloo last week, aside from the British Embassy in Washington, DC, having to apologize for their tweet that in questionable taste joked they'd only be lighting the President's home with sparklers on a cake this time.
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Northwest Passages: Into the Modernist Mystic
SEATTLE — I believe what Wallace Stevens said: a mythology reflects its region. So in moving from New York City to Seattle in 1995, I was doubly anxious, knowing neither the region nor its mythology.
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Artists Battle Transphobia in Argentina
It's been two years since a legal battle was won, yet trans and non-binary people in Argentina remain vulnerable to different forms of violence.
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Photographs from Life in the Tombs of Cairo's City of the Dead
For decades, an affordable housing shortage in Cairo, one of the largest cities in the world, has resulted in hundreds of families moving into the cemeteries. Photojournalist Tamara Abdul Hadi went into one such community to document what life is like among the dead.
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A Painter Finds Depth in Flatness
“The world is flat.” So declared New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in 2005. And before the world was flat, it was round, and before that it was flat. And the picture plane was flat too.
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The Image Fetishes of a Para-photographer
The first work one encounters in Robert Heinecken: Object Matter, the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) retrospective of the renowned “para-photographer,” is a 1965 piece entitled “Visual Poem/About the Sexual Education of a Young Girl.”