Today is the birthday of Barbara Kruger, the subversive female artist known to harness the power of print media in her bold, declarative artworks. In ...
TOP 5 FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 1. Amanda Palmer At 9:30 Club Her music may not be everyone's cup of tea, but Palmer knows how to put on a capti...
TOP 5 FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 1. National Day Of Service At Freedom Plaza If you can't make make it downtown to volunteer, there are events thr...
WASHINGTON -- The Hirshhorn Museum's Barbara Kruger exhibition, 'Belief+Doubt' is huge. Literally. Earlier this year the museum staged "Song 1," an...
Barbara Kruger made a name for herself in the 70s through subverting the powers of print media. After working in design at Conde Nast and Mademoiselle...
WASHINGTON -- The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden was evacuated on Monday afternoon after a security guard reportedly died of a se...
TOP 5 FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 20 1. "Belief + Doubt" At Hirshhorn The new Barbara Kruger exhibit opens today. Gigantic, Orwellian messages that have t...
Ed Ruscha is the latest artist to resign from the board of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, leaving no artists left on the board. The t...
In anticipation of 12/21/12, this past year saw a return of the doomsday film. Melancholia was an okay end-of-the-world movie, but for this fan, it was not a very good Lars Von Trier film. Perhaps a third viewing is in order.
1. "Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding." (Diane Arbus) 2. "Painting is like making love. Yo...
The annual fall auctions have just taken place during the week of 11-11-11, and so we've picked the top 11 priciest bombshells from the final "hammer price" tabulations.
To imagine Richard Prince doing drip paintings in honor of Jackson Pollock is too linear a concept for what Prince does in Guild Hall's new exhibition.
Getting Upper charges twenty-six designers with re-imagining a letter from the alphabet, using the illegibility and deconstructive nature of graffiti as their starting point.
Emi Fontana's non-profit West of Rome has been producing stellar public art displays of the works of Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and Olafur Eliasson.
There has never been more worldwide attention on the creative culture of Los Angeles.
Artists such as Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Ed Ruscha have famously used language to deconstruct the icons and apparatuses of modern society. Ho...
Why would Barbara Kruger, one of the seminal feminist artist icons of the past century, collaborate on a W cover featuring It- monster Kim Kardashian?
The actress Blythe Danner can do anything, and in the one-woman play, My Brilliant Divorce by Geraldine Aron, she does: pirouetting, leaping, laughing...
