The Essay As Art Form
The essay is a marginal, even trivial form, yet is also deeply and seriously engaged with the weightiest questions of how a philosophical and political subject can be constituted out of a pa…
The essay is a marginal, even trivial form, yet is also deeply and seriously engaged with the weightiest questions of how a philosophical and political subject can be constituted out of a pa…
“A few malls have art, a very few have good art, but almost none have the button-pushers and immersive installations that the Aventura Mall features. Artists on view include pioneers o…
“New York art dealer Mary Boone pleaded guilty in September to filing false tax returns. Now, as she awaits sentencing " which could be up to six years in jail " her lawyers have filed…
“Long before the burglar Vjeran Tomic became the talk of Paris, he honed his skills in Père Lachaise, the city’s largest cemetery … Tomic and his friends turned the cemetery i…
"It's a whole generation: you could go from A to Z through the list, from Charles Alston to Charles White. I am seeing fakes attributed to all of them," Rosenfeld says. Propelling the fakes …
In "Ink: A Piece for Museums,' which ran for two days at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, the musician-storyteller duo of James and Je…
“Where the Young British Artists were about ego and in-your-face art, with its sharks and suggestive arrangements of kebabs and fried eggs, this is collaborative, research based and po…
Many tribal art dealers feel that their work in restoring and preserving pieces, documenting information about them and helping to establish collections, has been misrepresented and point to…
A public art organisation has been tapped to curate the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale for the first time
Once again, art-lings, let me offer you my Best Wishes for an Art-Full New Year, along with CultureGrrl's Top 20 Stories for 2018. And I'll end this post with a postlude about an issue that …
Apollo editor Thomas Marks: “Restitution often feels like a disquieting concept for many Western museum-goers (myself included), for whom the values one invests in museums are unlikely…
"Examine any work of art down to its bone and you find cliché." William Goldman, <I>The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway</I> (courtesy of Jason Zinoman)
Many people will say " and truly believe " they are incapable of producing a work of art. Who among us doesn't know at least one person who claims to … Click to Continue »
Usually associated with children, LEGOs aren't regularly considered for their merit as an artistic medium. One Sacramento native is out to change that, building functional furniture and scul…
Peace. Compassion. Empowerment. And, perhaps most of all, patience. A group of Tibetan Buddhist monks from India will spend the start of 2019 in El Dorado County, exploring those topics R…
Sister Wendy Beckett, a nun and TV star who hosted several art history programs on the BBC, died at the age of 88, the network confirmed.Her caravan at a Carmelite convent in Norfolk showcas…
I have been thinking quite a bit about the problem of theatrical space lately. Open any survey of theatre history, and you are likely to find a fairly standardized account of how the spac…
“The idea that our political values might express themselves in how we think about children shouldn't be surprising to us. In the wake of World War II, philosopher Theodor Adorno colla…
Honestly, everything from Frida Kahlo air fresheners to Frida Kahlo teacups are available. But “would an anticapitalist, whose 1932 painting Self-portrait on the Borderline between …
All eyes are now on France. Despite the legal hurdles, restitutions are possible but only through a drawn-out process. President Macron's decision earlier this month to return 26 plundered i…
The Lord really does move in mysterious ways, it seems. Not only has tourism to the Spanish town of Borja more than quadrupled, but revenues have funded places for the indigent in the local …
This is a competition without a winner, a quiz without a prize: simply name the work of art, and its artist, from which each of these details is taken
Gimmicks dominated the art scene but some technological changes have genuine potential
An attempt to broaden the canvas of abstract art fails to move much beyond the confines of Pollock and co