Tag: art
Artist Promotion? Data Scam? My Trip With VoyageChicago
Promoting artists sounds great -- until you think they're aggregating your personal information.
3D-Printed Guns: The World’s Most Dangerous Art?
This is an art controversy -- and the stakes couldn't be higher.
The Dry History of Arts Funding As Juicy Downtown Theater
"One is never going to get all of America on board with any one issue -- let alone the public funding of arts."
Casanova, the Museum Exhibit? Casa-I-Don’t-Think-So
Curators, I propose a new kind of exhibit for your museum. (Hint: it doesn't honor the womanzier!)
Yinka Shonibare MBE’s ‘Wind Sculpture’ Is Disappointing Public Art
A bloodless public sculpture doesn't adequately address the bloody themes it claims to.
The 1918 Flu Pandemic, the Wisdom of Poets, and Trump
Catharine Arnold's "Pandemic 1918" prompts thoughts of mortality and the need for an examined life.
Audible and ‘Harry Clarke’ Remade David Cale’s Career
Starring Billy Crudup, produced by Audible, it was performance, workshop and theater history in one.
At the Morgan, Medieval Monsters Instruct and Entertain
Gorgeous illuminated manuscripts illustrate a broad concept of what monsters were -- and meant -- in medieval Europe.
Spanish Masterpieces Bridge Cultures at the San Antonio Museum of Art
500 years of Spanish art makes the point that culture links us, rather than separates us.
Elon Musk’s School: For Rich Families Who Don’t Care About Arts...
Ad Astra has some innovative but very flawed ideas about modern education.
Why Deana Lawson, Artist, Silenced Steven Nelson, Scholar
To defend her brand, an artist silenced a scholarly critique of her work. Why you should be terrified.
10 Nominees for Trump’s Chair, National Endowment for the Arts
There's a deep, eclectic bench ready to lead the agency.
How to Make a Black Man Disappear From Broadway
Here's what Ben Brantley did -- or didn't do -- in his review of "Angels in America" on Broadway.
Boys in What? Sometimes It’s Just Beautiful and That’s OK
Fathers don't have to an obstacle to their sons taking ballet.
“To Be a Rumor”: A Collective Homage to Sam Miller
Remembering a great, illusive, sly, curious, brilliant thought leader and champion of the arts.
Will Robots Replace Human Artists?
In this podcast, we speak with authors John Biggs and B.J. Mendelson on the future of social media and A.I.
Superfine! Is a New Kind of Art Fair: Welcoming and Affordable
Affordable values -- and a love of both artists and collectors.
Navigating History, Religion in ‘The Last Watchman of Old Cairo’
Why take time to read a book about time? For quiet revelations and epiphanies.
No Place Like MOME: How Julie Menin Champions NYC Arts
NYC's Commissioner of Media and Entertainment delivers promising successes.