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Typewriter Art, Online
The archival project Monoskop.org has posted the entirety of Alan Riddell's Typewriter Art (1975), an out-of-print volume collecting typographical artwork made between the 1890s and the 1970s.
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The Meaning of Clay at the Whitney Biennial
On the afternoon that I visited the 2014 Whitney Biennial, I caught sight of a high school group being led through the exhibition by an engaging young arts educator. I slowed down as our paths converged on three large ceramic sculptures by the Los Angeles–based artist Sterling Ruby. Each one is roug
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NEWD Art Fair Set to Open During 2014 Bushwick Open Studios
An upstart art fair in the nebulous East Williamsburg/Bushwick region, NEWD, is throwing its hat into the ring during the 2014 Bushwick Open Studios.
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Putting the 'No' in 'Nostalgia'
This show at James Fuentes, instigated by various artists associated with an exhibition in 1980 called The Real Estate Show, is a reconstruction of a spontaneous action that began in late 1979.
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The Lush Life of Virtual Architecture
PARIS — Jakob + Macfarlane’s drawings conceptually extol dandy artifice and knotted ambivalence while staying open to the breath of the voluptuous landscape.
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A Mainstream Museum Welcomes Two Old-Guard Experimentalists
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect upon entering the fourth floor galleries at the Museum of Modern Art for a collaborative performance, “illlummminnnatttionnnssss!!!!!!!” (2014), by old-guard experimentalists Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine. The pair had not performed together in over four d
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Remembering Earth Day with a Forgotten Artist
Because humans need special days to remind us to pay attention to issues we should care about all the time, today is the Earth Day, an annual reminder of the fragility of the planet and the necessity of protecting it. And since we're here, why not stop to remember those things with art?
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After 27 Years, a New York World's Fair Relic Reopens to the Public
The public was invited inside a New York City architectural monument today for a view that has been off-limits for 27 years. The New York State Pavilion, designed by Philip Johnson, was open for just a few hours this afternoon.
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The Secret Is Out! Amanda Lepore Joins Friday's The Lost Lectures in New York
Announcing the sixth and final speaker for Friday night's The Lost Lectures event in New York: Amanda Lepore!
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A Bilingual Globalism Between North and South America
BOSTON — Traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation's collection in Miami, Permission To be Global (Prácticas Globales) — the MFA's first exhibition of contemporary art from Latin America — calls attention to globalization within the institution's n
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The Delicate and Gruesome Art of Medieval Alabaster
The English Reformation of the 1530s wasn't just an upheaval of the country's spirituality as the Church of England severed its Catholic ties; it disrupted whole industries. One was the alabaster sculpture business of the Midlands.
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Annie Leibovitz, Wu-Tang Clan, and the Aura of Expensive Art
Photographer Annie Leibovitz's latest work of art is a book — a book that measures more than two feet high, runs to 476 pages, and comes with its own tripod, designed by Marc Newson.