How Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson Got 35,000 People to Draw on the Moon
One small click of the mouse, a giant leap for art Read More
View Article12 Trends Defining This Season’s Art-Museum Shows
Where to find the major retrospectives, provocative theme shows, and dazzling art-selfie destinations of the spring 2014 season Read More
View Article13 Dazzling Treasure-Packed Art-Museum Shows to See in Spring 2014
Masterworks, manuscripts, mosaics, royal jewels, devotional sculpture, and blinged-out arms and armor feature in exhibitions devoted to the arts of Byzantium, Buddhism, Islam, West Africa, the Samurai,...
View ArticleAvant-Garde Quilt Explosion!
A guide to weird and wild contemporary-art quilts by conceptualists, code-breakers, feminists, fashionistas, Afrofuturists, and street artists Read More
View Article101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week
The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was an international initiative to bring women's voices to the online encyclopedia--as editors and as subjects Read More
View Article10 Amazing Data Visualizations of Creativity and Art History
With five New York art spaces showing maps, charts, and diagrams, it’s a great moment for flowchart art Read More
View Article14 Artworks That Prove Pink Is Tough
The color that seems softest can often speak most loudly Read More
View Article29 Artists With Their Work at New York Art Fairs
Snapshots of creators and their creations at the Art Show, the Armory Show, and Volta Read More
View ArticleVoguing Meets Drawing, and the Results Are Spectacular
Using the Drawing Center’s gallery space, a tricked-out Xbox Kinect, and the exaggerated rhythmic stylings of expert dancers and musicians, Rashaad Newsome created a template for sculptures like no...
View ArticleThe Evil-Looking Women Drug Addicts of French Belle Epoque Art
As the morphine craze gripped Paris, a new archetype of angry, scary women emerged in French prints. Collectors loved them Read More
View Article12 Museum-Worthy Power Suits from Around the World
To get to the top, you have to wear the right clothes Read More
View ArticleThe ARTnews Shelfie Project: Art-World Luminaries Pose With Their Books
Laurie Simmons, Jerry Saltz, Xu Bing, and other art insiders took shelf portraits for us Read More
View ArticleA Gallery of Venice Biennale Artists
Converging on Venice from Iraq, Iceland, Azerbaijan, and beyond, they came, they showed—and they posed for photos Read More
View ArticleVision Quest: Exploring the Venice Biennale
A channel-changing exhibition about imagination headlines a convergence of art from 88 countries Read More
View ArticleLet My People Show: Welcome to ‘Jew York’
Jewish art geography, from Aleph and Arbus to Robert Zimmerman Read More
View ArticleTaking Cat Art Seriously
From a provocative upcoming Metropolitan Museum show to adoption-ready “purr-formers,” the art world is exploring the shock of the mew Read More
View ArticlePedal Pushers: How Art Museums Are Promoting Bike Culture
In exhibitions and programs across the country, museums are devising new ways to showcase the exquisite mix of engineering, craftsmanship and style that moves us forward on two finely calibrated wheels...
View ArticleHow Edward Hopper Storyboarded ‘Nighthawks’
Drawings at the Whitney reveal the step-by-step process the artist used to create his iconic painting of a New York diner at night Read More
View ArticleReinventing the African American Portrait
Dogon, Flavin, Outkast, Dave Chappelle, the Incredible Hulk, and more coexist in Robert Pruitt's identity-expanding drawings of women at the Studio Museum Read More
View ArticleD.C. for ETs: Sci-fi Archeology at the Corcoran
An alien’s-eye view of Washington’s ruins, via Ellen Harvey Read More
View ArticleThe Ultimate Map of Art-World Feuds
William Powhida and Jade Townsend are back with a satirical drawing of a lurid battleground where artists, posers, critics, dragons, Internet trolls, and Modernist ghosts fight for their lives Read More
View ArticleMust-See Museum Shows to Make You Think, or Cry
Identity remixed in provocative displays at the Jewish Museum, the New Museum, the Whitney, and Tate Modern Read More
View ArticleResurrecting Chagall’s Jewish Jesus
Marc Chagall’s Crucifixions are in a startling Jewish Museum show that overturns popular notions of his work Read More
View ArticleIt’s Manet Mania Weekend at Yale!
On the 150th birthday of Manet’s two most scandalous paintings, a show and a conference track the afterlives of the nudes, the dudes, the maid, and the cat Read More
View ArticleChatting With MacArthur Winner Carrie Mae Weems
The artist, activist, and educator on winning the "genius grant," bringing color to the Guggenheim, and changing the world one flower at a time Read More
View ArticleThe Metropolitan Museum’s Global Revolutionary
How the original Rockefeller Republican effected radical change by championing "Primitive" art Read More
View ArticleFresh Prints: MoMA Washes Pollock’s Hands
Using art history, chemistry, and detective work, conservators uncover intriguing details in three classic paintings Read More
View ArticleAdrian Piper Pulls Out of Black Performance-Art Show
Venerable Conceptual artist withdraws from "Radical Presence" at Grey Art Gallery, asserting it marginalizes African American artists Read More
View ArticleTen Tough Women Artists Who Stand Up to the Bad Boys
In a male-dominated art season, here’s where to find female artists who cut, change the rules, explore new horizons, and do it gangsta-style Read More
View ArticleHow to Speak Artspeak (Properly)
A new guide decodes 146 essential buzzwords, movements, and trends of the postwar art world. How many do you know? Read More
View ArticleThe Semi-Secret History of Modernism’s Best Comic Artist
A new show explores links between Ad Reinhardt's identity as abstract painter and as cartoonist, satirist, crusader, explicator, and slide-show maker Read More
View ArticleThe Art-Lovers’ Crowdfunding Gift Guide
Gifts that keep on giving for art nerds, culture geeks, crafters, thrill seekers, and more Read More
View Article9 Art Shows to See After ‘12 Years a Slave’
Museum exhibitions confront amnesia, restore lost narratives, and consider the legacy of the Middle Passage Read More
View ArticleArtwork on Violence in Colombia Too Dangerous for Art Fair in Miami
Fire officials stop Camilo Restrepo from blowing off steam to finish piece at Untitled fair Read More
View ArticleMiami Finally Has the Art Museum It Deserves
Why the Pérez Art Museum Miami is the right museum for the city—and a model for the future Read More
View ArticleArt Basel Miami Beach as Told Through Pictures of Words
So. Many. Feelings. Leave it to text art to explain Read More
View ArticleRob Pruitt’s Smiley Faces Will Make You Cry
The bittersweet backstory of the happy faces at de la Cruz collection Read More
View ArticleFeminist-Art Icon Under Her Umbrella-Ella-Ella
Carolee Schneemann's classic, erotic, transgressive work from the '60s takes center stage in Miami Read More
View ArticleMiami Recap: Is There a Global Art Esthetic?
A roundup of favorites from 8 fairs, 3 museums, 3 private collections, and 2 public projects Read More
View ArticleYou CAN Touch This: Rapper Lupe Fiasco Tells Museums How It Is
Under his real name, Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, the rapper defies museum security and invents some of his own Read More
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