The 34th Annual Museum Mile Festival, when art literally takes to the streets in a fabulous celebration, takes place on...
George Heymont | Posted June 3, 2012
Ever since man ventured out to sea, stories about bizarre marine life have filled our folklore and literature. From tales of ancient sea monsters to Melville's Moby-Dick, from purported sightings of the Loch Ness Monster to films such as 2007's The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep and 2009's Mega...
Zahra Ebrahim | Posted June 3, 2012
Designers always end up with the short end of the stick. Our work is misunderstood, and no one knows exactly what it is we do. When people do encounter a need for design in their lives, they don't know where to find their designer. Maybe they'll Google, and find links...
Fern Siegel | Posted June 2, 2012
Race is a complicated issue in America -- often unfairly reduced to PC dictates from the left or rabid anger from the right. A candid exploration of America's racial history -- and progress -- is ongoing. Obama's election as the first African American president made millions proud, but the discussion...
Kari Adelaide | Posted June 1, 2012
Shoot the Lobster is a new project space at Martos Gallery with intricate straying that has included work by Chris Martin, Joshua Smith, Ryan Foerster, Bill Saylor and Aidas Bareikas, among others. The programming will continue to present inventive possibilities, temporarily settling in remote spaces, including...
Ken Goldberg | Posted June 1, 2012
Everyone knows Ansel Adams' photos of Yosemite. But I'd never heard of Fiat Lux, a set of over 6,700 Ansel Adams photographs of the University of California that constitute his second largest body of work. Adams shot these photos at the request of UC...
Simona Lodi | Posted June 1, 2012
It was with a cheeky smile on his face that Kristoffer Gansing, the young director of the transmediale festival, announced the new title of next year's festival: BWPWAP, meaning Back When Pluto Was A Planet.
The announcement was made at reSource event 001: Trial Crack -- the...
Crane.tv | Posted June 1, 2012
After months of preparing for the next gen show of the year, the students at the Royal College of Art presented their collections at the 2012 Fashion MA Show yesterday. Whilst the vast majority of the audience were wondering if they would catch a glimpse of...
Debra Ollivier | Posted June 1, 2012
In the beginning of Wes Anderson's new movie "Moonrise Kingdom," Bob Balaban appears on a desolate New England island looking a bit like one of Santa's helpers. As the movie's narrator, he sets the scene for what's to come: an emotionally subtle but complex love story between two...
Lightsey Darst | Posted June 1, 2012
I've come to a conclusion about dance and money: if dancers did not sometimes sleep with rich people, American dance as we know it would cease to exist.
Absurd and degrading as this conclusion is -- can you imagine the same being said of any other art form? -- the...
Annie Fehrenbacher | Posted June 1, 2012
"Because it's hard to find someone you love who loves you -- but you can begin, at least, by finding someone who loves your love song" -- Dave Hickey, "Air Guitar"
Brian Wilson is God. If that...
Nicole Garton | Posted June 3, 2012
Tida Tippapart | Posted June 1, 2012
Conversation with Nick Ravich, co-creator and producer of Art 21's New York Close Up
It will be a great place if they ever finish it, said O. Henry.
Writing about the transitory state of New York City seems like an impossible feat, yet the city as subject...
David Trumble | Posted June 1, 2012
Hi everyone. Trumble here.
Two years into my life, I was trying to make sense of the world through drawing. I didn't always succeed, but like all two year olds I had a go.
Twenty six years into my life, and I've gotten slightly better at it. I have...
Leonard Maltin | Posted June 1, 2012
by Leonard Maltin
This may be the first summer movie season where box-office results in China and Russia mean more to Hollywood than the domestic returns. That's not good news for those of us who crave movies for mature audiences, as those mushrooming new markets seem especially hungry for superheroes,...
Sophie de Rakoff | Posted May 31, 2012
In an era of Dwell Modern, Danish style and industrial chic, hip parents are looking for hip products to entertain their kids, whilst trying hard not to buy into gross commercialism and mass branding. Draw Me a House, written and illustrated by Thibaud Herem, a French-born illustrator based in London,...
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted May 31, 2012
Twenty years ago, British playwright Alan Ayckbourn's poignant and profound Woman in Mind blazed across several Los Angeles stages with talented performers Helen Mirren, Kandis Chappel, Paxton Whitehead, Hal Landon, Jr., and JD Cullum. Now, after a long absence, Ayckbourn's play has returned to Los Angeles with a dazzling performance...
MutualArt | Posted May 31, 2012
The month kicked off with Sotheby's historic sale of Edvard Munch's The Scream, marking a new world record...
Daniel J. Kushner | Posted May 31, 2012
On May 5, the Edelman Arts gallery on Manhattan's Upper East Side opened its sixth exhibition of works by the English-born, Berlin-based artist Christopher Winter. Comprised predominantly of acrylic-on-canvas works from 2012, the show, as its title "Unnatural History" suggests, does much to distort -- both subtly and explicitly --...
Christopher Duggan | Posted May 31, 2012
Last night was the opening of my year-long exhibition at the National Museum of Dance, and it was a really exciting moment in my artistic career -- not just because any curation of my work is incredibly flattering, but because the photographs I chose to display all showcase...
Karen Rubin | Posted June 3, 2012