In Brief
John Baldessari Lends His Voice and Conceptual Art to The Simpsons
The grandfather figure of California conceptual art recently turned up in a Springfield art gallery for a cameo on the beloved cartoon.
John Baldessari
Art
A Decade of New York City Art and Disco in 10 Tracks
Recent books by Tim Lawrence and Douglas Crimp underline the close relationship between the New York art scene of the 1970s and '80s and that most unjustly maligned of musical movements, disco.
Art
Spilled Bananas, Split Blades, and Books with Bullets: Eclectic Offerings at Mana Miami
MIAMI — The Miami neighborhood of Wynwood smells like stale weed, paint fumes, and gentrification.
Art
Trump’s Menstrala Art Moment: A Short History of Election Art
In certain parlors, the mixing of art and politics is considered vulgar. If so, then vulgarity reigns supreme in the memory of recent presidential elections.
Art
We Painted Famous Artworks with Donald Trump's Face
Donald Trump came under fire again this week after making some pretty outrageous statements about GOP presidential rival Carly Fiorina’s face, so it’s especially timely that someone on the internet gifted us with “Paint with Donald Trump,” a website that lets you paint with eight of Trump’s most rid
Opinion
A Clickhole into Conceptual Video Art
Clickhole, the Onion's clickbait-parodying spin-off, is producing some of the best video art on the internet.
Art
Billboard Art Project Sets Off Terrorism Scare Near US/Mexico Border
A series of ten billboards erected along Interstate 10 in southern New Mexico by the art organization Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) has provoked suspicion, anxiety, and even outright antagonism.
Art
Art Between Image and Text
To appreciate the group exhibition Thanks for Writing at 601Artspace, you must be prepared to savor the written word. The show highlights diverse considerations of the relationship between language and visual art with 14 artists addressing disparate topics and working in different media.
Art
Tom Sachs's Pointless Americana
PARIS — In a search for art that reacts to the inequalities of globalization, must art lose touch with the sort of grace that exceeds the hand, a grace that couldn’t be anything but artificial and technological?
Performance
John Baldessari as Muse
LOS ANGELES — How many literary readings involve a faux-gorilla dancing with a palm leaf and bunch of balloons? Or a megaphone? Or someone tossing handmade zines into the audience with abandon? Artists Read Baldessari was this type of event.
News
LA's MOCA Loses the Last of Its Artist Trustees
Artist Ed Ruscha has left the board of LA's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), following the departures last week of John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger and Catherine Opie. The last artist on the board has left the building.
Opinion
Video Candy: A History of John Baldessari as Narrated by Tom Waits
Artist John Baldessari asked Tom Waits to narrate his short history and it's pretty funny.