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Zombies and Pop Stars
Josh Kline’s work takes the viewer into the uncanny valley. The two centerpieces of his exhibition QUALITY OF LIFE at 47 Canal show actors playing Kurt Cobain and Whitney Houston, interviewed as if they were alive today.
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Turning an Experiment in Musical Architecture into a Village
A New Orleans project that started in 2011 as an experiment with musical architecture is planning a return, although this time with roving ramshackle structures that can eventually become a permanent soundscape in the city.
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Women of Vision: The Female Photographers of National Geographic
Since Jodi Cobb joined National Geographic in 1977 as the magazine's first female staff photographer, more and more women photographers have contributed images to the publication in essays on human rights, conflict zones, the minds of teenagers, epidemics, life in the remote corners of the world, an
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Tune In, Drop Out: The Timothy Leary Papers Are Now Available to the Public
The newly open-the-public Timothy Leary papers at the New York Public Library is a fascinating trove.
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Evading Detection in the Digital Panopticon
BOSTON — A six-foot-tall sculpture of a figure wearing a ghillie suit, a collaborative work by artists George Heintz and Victoria Duffee, hides in the corner of the windowless Distillery Gallery. The way the figure is installed, he stares curiously at a photograph printed on Tri Poplin of a tropical
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A Drive-In Theater Built from Our Empire of Trash
While the drive-in movie theaters of Kodak-colored dreams are cluttered with classic cars, their heavy bodies dunked in primary colors, the cars at Empire Drive-In are all recent cast-offs, the engines in their wrecked bodies silent, personal artifacts from previous owners left behind on the floorbo
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Animating the Archive: Black Performance Art's Radical Presence
Radical Presence gives a great taste of some of the work done by black artists working in performance over the past five decades. And one of the best things about it is that it’s not just a static archive.
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Will an Auction Help Convince People There's a Market for New Media Art?
A digital art auction is seeking to bring the art and tech communities closer together, and it may help forge a market for digital art in the process.
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A Performance Artist's Grotesque Femininity
My memory finally caught up with the ephemera of a familiar artist when I went to go see Katya Grokhovsky’s show Bodybeautiful at Galerie Protégé.
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Nevermore? Poe Museum Turns to Kickstarter to Preserve Raven Illustrations
Many artists have been drawn to the macabre, dolorous work of Edgar Allen Poe — Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Édouard Manet, Gustave Doré.
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A New York Apocalypse, Hidden in Plain Sight
On the Portal of Paradise on the western façade of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan are sculptures of the end of modern New York. The Brooklyn Bridge is breaking in two, a bus plummeting from it into the water while waves rise up over the toppling skyline. People run in a panic belo
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The Medium Is the Poem: Micropoetry on Twitter
OAKLAND, Calif. — A few weeks ago, I wrote about Heyku, a new app that takes an Instagram approach to poetry. One of our readers, Luke Agbaimoni, wrote in about his site, micropoetry.com, which features some of the existing practices of poets online.