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10 Biggest Art Disasters of 2013
This year has had its fair share of disasters for the cultural community.
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My Year in Racket: An Eclectic Musical Look Back at 2013
Obviously, this list needs to go to 11.
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The Vilification of Banksy's Success
Banksy’s month-long New York residency might as well have been entitled, ‘The Banksy rehabilitation program.’ In coming to New York, the artist wasn’t simply courting a new American audience. He sought to rehabilitate his image with his former fans — Brits like me — whose interest tapered off long a
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Art Rx
Happy new year, dear readers — here's to another year of art!
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100-Year-Old Photographs of Doomed Expedition Discovered in Antarctica
Some photographs are best left to be discovered decades after they were first exposed. Much like the work of Vivian Maier — whose images were found years after she said her goodbyes — a recent finding of 22 undeveloped cellulose nitrate negatives from a 1914-1917 Antarctic expedition reignites our w
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Crowning the Selfie King
CHICAGO — The race for selfie king is on. James Franco's piece in the New York Times now rivals Benny Winfield Jr.'s interview in VICE. But there are multiple selfie kings, not just one.
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Stephen Westfall’s Breakthrough
I went to Stephen Westfall’s exhibition, Jesus and Bossa Nova, at Lennon, Weinberg (November 7, 2013–January 4, 2014) twice on the same day. The second time I walked through the gallery’s long narrow space verified my initial thought, which is that the layout of the exhibition could be read as a nar
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The Pursuit of Art, 2013
Memories fade. That’s the one good reason, as far as I can see, to compile an end-of-year list. It’s sometimes startling to retrace what attracted my attention over the course of a year; it is also instructive to determine where such a miscellany of shows fits in with ongoing areas of interest, and
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The Many Contradictions of a "Ghetto Biennale"
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In 2011, for the second Ghetto Biennale, artist Jason Metcalf hired a Haitian translator to translate the chapter on creolization from Nicholas Bourriaud's The Radicant into Creole and distributed it throughout Port-au-Prince, the location of the biennale. When I read about t
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The Geometric Perfection of Snowflakes
We all grew up hearing that each snowflake is unique, but Moscow-based Alexey Kljatov's macrophotography of snowflakes makes your realize the mind-blowing complexity of these crystalline marvels.
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Flowers on the Blue Line
CHICAGO — For two days in a row this past weekend, I boarded the train to Forest Park at the Damen Blue Line station. Dragging my feet up the snow- and dirt-muddied stairs, I looked up to see flowers — actually collages of images of flowers, cacti, and other foliage. They were, I soon learned, creat
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Subway Street Art Gets on the GIF Train
Artists Jilly Ballistic and Ryan Seslow have recently started creating their own version of GIF-iti.