Opinion
Required Reading
This week, what scared Hitchcock, the future of digital arts publishing, paying for digital art commissions, copying what ISIS destroyed, an oil spill in "Christina's World," and more.
Weekend
Opinion
Weekend Words: Sweet
Tomorrow begins National Candy Month.
Music
Chirpy Cartoons from Ironyland: PC Music Volume 1
Since August 2013, the British techno label PC Music has been regularly releasing a large number of definitely strange, possibly satiric, stunningly original songs online.
Art
Natalie Frank Delivers the News from Never-Never Land
Many fairy tales are about young girls and boys whose lives are controlled by the capricious impulses of evil stepmothers, vain queens and repressive fathers.
Art
Subversive Color at the Rose Art Museum
WALTHAM, Mass. — To say that painting is having a moment would be ironic – since, despite periodic claims regarding its demise or return, it clearly never went very far away.
Art
Figure Is to Background as Representation Is to Model: Neil Gall’s 'Cut-Outs, Offcuts and Holes'
In Neil Gall’s newest paintings, which are currently being exhibited at David Nolan, there is a powerfully coercive interplay between figure and background that veers between the unstable and the terrifying.
Art
Twice-Murdered: Pasolini as Street Art
ROME– Pier Paolo Pasolini is the JFK of Italy: a figure of courage and freedom for some; for others, a polarizing symbol of moral dissolution. His death, forty years ago this year, is still a source of debate.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, France's faux prehistoric cave, Palmyra's importance, does color exist, dangers of selfie sticks, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Arm
This week came the report of a new robotic arm that can be operated with the power of thought.
Music
Josh Groban, Canary
Let’s take a moment to examine Josh Groban’s voice, shall we?
Art
A Few Reasons Why Poets Love Bruce Conner
Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was a protean artist, who achieved something that is unlikely to be equaled anytime soon: he reinvented himself in every medium he took up, while remaining true to his perfectionist impulses.
Interview
From Grief to Action: Patricia Cronin on Her ‘Shrine for Girls’
If you make the pilgrimage to the Venice Biennale this year, among the many artistic spectacles you will encounter is an actual shrine.