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Museum Websites From the Past Millennium
Browsing the early websites of major art museums makes for an entertaining exercise.
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The Rite of Autumn: Seven NYC Dance Events to Catch this Fall
When scheduling your fall NYC arts itinerary, don't leave out dance. There is a storm of movement coming from both the established companies and individuals with experimental ideas about what movement and the body can mean on stage.
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Artists and Autocrats: A Love Story
Kanye West, seasoned rap man and unflappable artiste, recently played a $3 million gig for the son of Kazakhstan's dictator for life. Dennis Rodman is back in North Korea, for the second time this year, to pal around with unrepentant mass-murder Kim Jong-Un. Or, in Rodman's words: "I'm going to Nort
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A Preliminary Art Readers' Guide to the NYC Mayoral Race
After 12 long years filled with bike lanes and billion-dollar developments, the Bloomberg era is finally drawing to a close. Next Tuesday in the primaries, New Yorkers will take their first steps toward choosing a new mayor. Here's our guide to how the candidates measure up in terms of the arts.
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Mongol Conquest and Genghis Khan's Squandered Cultural Legacy
OAKLAND, California — Nobody knows where Genghis Khan's body is, but there's plenty of evidence of his DNA. A staggering report noted that some 16 million people can thank the Khan for their heritage. That's roughly 1 in 200 men in the world.
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Governors Island Art Fair Kicks Off This Weekend
If you've ever visited Governors Island, there's a good chance you've been charmed by it. Only eight minutes by ferry from Manhattan and three from Brooklyn, the island feels like a world apart from the rest of New York City, with its old military buildings and green landscape. It's also the home to
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Caves of Forgotten Psychedelic Dreams
PORTLAND, Ore. — A label like psychedelic sculpture, for what it's worth, does justice to the gnarly stalactites and unorthodox mineral deposits of the Oregon Caves National Monument. Seriously, it's like walking through a three dimensional Grateful Dead album cover.
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Two Pioneers of Arab Abstraction, Side by Side
LONDON — In a time of acute upheaval, there is something comforting about the concurrent retrospectives currently on view at the Tate Modern for two seminal Arab modernists, Saloua Raouda Choucair and Ibrahim El-Salahi.
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Six NYC Places Most in Danger of Disappearing This Fall
As anyone who spends a few months watching a New York neighborhood knows, things change. Buildings disappear or suddenly spring up with glass and steel towers. This fall, a few of the city's more interesting places are in danger of disappearing completely, including a mid-century futurist airline te
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Art Rx
By the calendar, you've still got a few weeks left of summer, but in the art world fall has arrived, which means tons of openings and events.
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The Beauty of a Sculpted Experience at Storm King
The Hudson Valley has a special kind of light and soaring nature, with its elevations and valleys illuminated with sun, starlight, and storm. At the Storm King Art Center with its installations of giant metal sculptures that seem alien on the meadows, or land art that warps the earth, the most inter
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A Rainbow Over the Williamsburg Bridge
Last week, Minneapolis-based street artist HOTTEA, who is well-known for stringy street art that normally weaves its away around chain-link fences, transformed the pedestrian tunnel at the Williamsburg Bridge into a colorful passageway.