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Art Rx
This week, a Fluxus throwback, a contemporary multimedia rock opera, documentaries, experimental animation, and much more.
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Colorful Life Returns to Jersey City
Thanks to artist Kara Rooney, the curator of Panepinto Galleries, Jersey City is once again featuring dynamic artists working in the field today.
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When in Rome, Blog Like a Roman Foodie
OAKLAND, Calif. — Travel presents so many opportunities to stimulate the senses, from new color palettes to new sounds and languages. But in my opinion, you've not experienced a culture until you've engaged that other sense — taste — and savored its foods, until you've watched how people cook and st
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Excavating Architectural Photography
LOS ANGELES — A small room at the Getty Center in Los Angeles contains the entire history of architectural photography. In fewer than thirty photographs, In Focus: Architecture charts the timeline of the medium since it usurped drawing as the primary means of building documentation in the mid-ninete
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"Exposed Brick" Wins People's Choice Vote in Storefront's Critical Halloween 2013
We have a winner! The "People's Choice" award for this year's Storefront for Art and Architecture's Critical Halloween Costume Competition goes to Colin Curley for "Exposed Brick."
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Blue Is the Color of Desire
Blue Is the Warmest Color, which clocks in at just under three hours, may be one of the most ambitious film love stories ever made. There are movies that paint first romance as a coming-of-age story; others try to capture the process and feeling of falling in love; some dissect the series of events
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Trust My Selfie
CHICAGO — "In the world of networked individuals, it is the person who is the focus: not the family, not the work unit, not the neighborhood, and not the social group," write authors Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman in their 2012 book Networked: The New Social Operating System.
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Francisca Sutil’s Method of Counting Time
Francisca Sutil is a Chilean abstract artist who lived in New York from 1977 until 1992, when she returned to Santiago, Chile, where she currently lives and works. She came to New York to study printmaking at Pratt Institute. In 1978, she discovered papermaking and, within a short time that included
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The World According to Wirsum
Do you ever wonder how stupid the New York art world can be? Well, if you don’t have enough proof, here is another example to add to your cache. Karl Wirsum at Derek Eller (October 12–November 16) is the artist’s first exhibition of recent work in New York since 1988.
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Mr. Big Stuff: Richard Serra Piles It On
Once in a blue moon a show arrives that excuses the inexcusable — delivering actual aesthetic dividends from the tentacular global reach, bottomless capital and self-aggrandizing, macho scale endemic to the top tiers of the art game. Despite my expectations, that show turns out to be Richard Serra’s
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Mapping San Francisco's Literary History
OAKLAND, Calif. — San Francisco has become a city of gadgets, but it's always been a city of letters. The town was central to the Beat movement in the 50's, and the recent, city-wide SF Lit Crawl shed light on its wide variety of independent bookstores.
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Anointing Art's Female Popes
AVIGNON, France — The exhibition Les Papesses, curated by Collection Lambert Director Éric Mézil, anoints five female popes — popesses, if you will — of modern and contemporary art: Camille Claudel, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak, and Berlinde de Bruyckere. And it does a fantastic job of