Nam June Paik at Tate Liverpool " art review
Tate Liverpool and Fact, LiverpoolTwo kooky figures with crooked smiles beam at you from across the gallery. They belong to a family of robots. Aunt is a sweet-faced lady, her hips made of b…
Tate Liverpool and Fact, LiverpoolTwo kooky figures with crooked smiles beam at you from across the gallery. They belong to a family of robots. Aunt is a sweet-faced lady, her hips made of b…
With clashes between students and state continuing, should artists opt out of the whole patriarchal slugfest?As students took to the streets last week to protest against the government's cha…
The Broadway artwork for CATCH ME IF YOU CAN has been released
Jeffrey Deitch - a longtime champion of street art - late last week ordered a wall mural it had commissioned by Blu, an Italian graffiti artist, to be whitewashed because it found the artwor…
The country singer is immortalized in a new portrait by Peter Max, whose work she remembers seeing often "as a child and young teen."
Hershey Felder's Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein will replace the solo performer's Beethoven, As I Knew Him in the Asolo Repertory Theatre's season, running June 8-12 in…
At's SDC's West Coast membership meeting last Monday in Los Angeles, board member and moderator Michael John Garces urged current members to "be a part of the curve rather than just re…
The immersive decor at some Broadway theaters treads dangerously close to kitsch.
The immersive décor at some Broadway theaters treads dangerously close to kitsch.
After Strictly, a new populism is sweeping dance, with shows at huge venues, scores by the Pet Shop Boys and films all set to appear in the new yearWhen Carlos Acosta and Tamara Rojo run ont…
Ballet today is dull, cynical and empty, says Jennifer Homans. To survive, it must rediscover its core principlesI was a dancer and have devoted my life to performing, studying and understan…
On Wednesday during "First Choice" at Art Base things seemed sedate compared to the years before 2008. Some described the giant convention hall as "empty."
Fisk University, which wants to sell a $30 million ownership stake in its collection of Alfred Stieglitz photographs, plans to appeal a court decision that set limits on the sale.
The Art Basel Miami starting gun goes off at 11 on Wednesday morning, when VIPs get to enter the fair. But for those who arrived early, Tuesday offered an opportunity for warm-up.
Martin Rayner plays a dying Freud in the Off Broadway play "Freud's Last Session" even as he battles cancer himself.
We pause to remember Leslie Nielsen, an actor who knew very well that his job wasn't to say funny things or say things in a funny way -- but who managed to be riotously funny anyway.
If you love painting or think you could, consider seeing "The Pitmen Painters," the British play by Lee Hall that the Manhattan Theater Club is presenting on Broadway.
News of North Korea's latest nuclear stunt has launched debate about the mindset of country's leader, Kim Jong Il, once again. David Rothkopf of Foreign Policy argues that what the rest of t…
Italy’s culture ministry defended Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi yesterday for giving ancient marble statues in his office replacement body parts, to the horror of art restorers.
Readers, what do you think: Is ballet dying? What are its greatest challenges?
Economic hurdles plague public art
Terence Riley will be the first non-Chinese curator of the exhibition.
I was in my 20s when I discovered that my grandfather, Abraham Lishinsky, painted giant murals, vistas of human progress, for the WPA and other jobs programs of Roosevelt’s New Deal. I…
African Mosaic, the newest exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, includes modern and contemporary, popular and traditional works. Host Michel Martin speaks…
Filmmaker Mark Craig has been saving his answering machine messages for two decades, and now he wants you to hear them.