Waiting for a Twitch
Malcolm Mc Neill's memoir about his longtime collaboration with William S. Burroughs, Observed While Falling, is just as spellbinding as his show at Salomon Arts in Manhattan.
Malcolm Mc Neill's memoir about his longtime collaboration with William S. Burroughs, Observed While Falling, is just as spellbinding as his show at Salomon Arts in Manhattan.
E. Jean Carroll | Posted 12.02.2008 | Style
Forcing someone to see you more often is impossible. You can't control what he does any more than Frieda Kahlo could control her eyebrow tweezers.
Randall Bourscheidt | Posted 12.02.2008 | Living
We are fighting now to recover our prosperity but also our sense of purpose and pride as a nation. Like all other nations in history, our culture stands at the center of our identity.
Charlotte Appleyard | Posted 11.21.2008 | Style
Tuesday night's spectacle proved just why Barack Obama has inspired a lot more than most candidates, much of which up until recently had been smart poster-like and kitsch.
Pam Bristow | Posted 11.20.2008 | Style
Los Angeles-based artist Victoria Reynolds creates strangely beautiful paintings of meat of every variety.
New York Observer | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business
Javier Peres, an influential art gallerist with unusual taste, says that the economy is slightly affecting the way he does business, reports the New Y...
Sarah Greenwalt | Posted 11.14.2008 | Style
Money may come and money may go, but the art world will always love a party. That couldn't have been more evident than at the lively opening of the Pinta Art Fair in New York City.
Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 11.11.2008 | Living
The towers rise inexorably -- first in metal scaffolding, then in shiny glass, eventually to be lit from within by the glow of flat-screen television...
AP | Posted 11.11.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Eat your heart out, Eddie Haskell. Tony Dow, best known as the actor who portrayed The Beav's big brother, Wally, in the '50s TV s...
Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 10.29.2008 | Green
San Francisco's Broadway tunnel is a busy thoroughfare in the midst of the city. Its walls are thick with grime and patched with remnants of spray-pai...
Paddy Johnson | Posted 10.20.2008 | Style
Five of the original voting booths used in the 2000 Florida election have been repurposed by artists, with all but one just as rickety as they were in their original state.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 10.14.2008 | Entertainment
Juxtaposed with the highly colored rock stars and fashionistas, the portraits are notable for the virtuosity and the way they make their subjects look utterly contemporary.
Ben Arnon | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
"I think what then happened was that there were a lot of people who were digging Obama but they didn't have any way to symbolically show their support."
Michael Markarian | Posted 10.10.2008 | Media
Patrick McDonnell, the creator of the comic strip MUTTS, has dedicated a full week beginning this Sunday to the theme of protecting farm animals from cruelty.
Jane Dwyre Garton | Posted 09.15.2008 | Chicago
Four summers ago I bumped into the work of Sebastiao Salgado by chance. I have never recovered.
Victoria Lautman | Posted 08.29.2008 | Chicago
It seems like the end of an era: Chicago's own art-collector and bon vivant Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman died last week at age 94.
Nato Thompson | Posted 08.26.2008 | Entertainment
Located smack-dab in the center of Coney, this project tackles a dark political issue with the zeal and terrifying hilarity reserved for conditions so abysmal that laughter is a natural, if not perverse, response.
Victoria Lautman | Posted 08.21.2008 | Chicago
Here is an installation that bravely and wildly exposes the creative process, throws it in front of your face, in all its messy, hand-made, stream-of-consciousness glory. It's literally like peering into the mind of an artist, and in this case an extremely talented, witty, thoughtful one.
Nato Thompson | Posted 08.13.2008 | Entertainment
Reenactment is quite popular in contemporary art today, but in essence, art is simply a reflection of larger social currents operating in our daily lives. Contemporary politics, as well as art, seems to be in the grasp of the past.
New York Times | Alice Rawsthorn | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green
THERE'S no point in arguing with Philippe Starck, because it generally goes like this: (1) The world's most famous product designer makes a well-meani...
BBC | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business
Sometimes it's easy to worry about Big Brother abusing all the amazing technology around us -- the cameras in our computers, the chips in our phones, ...
Maura Judkis | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green
The Green Patriot Posters project is beginning its campaign with a series of bus posters in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by local artist Michael Beirut.
Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 07.28.2008 | Style
Ladies and Gentlemen: To honor the launch of Huffington Post's new Style section, I present the seventh installment of my Let's Bring Back series. A...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
The New Yorker cover art depicts Obama in a way that McCain simply never could be. Obama is "the Other." Something "foreign" and "un-American."
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Jan Herman | Posted 12.02.2008 | Style