Video: On restoring Alexander Calder’s mobile, Red Lily Pads (1956), at the Guggenheim.
The Guggenheim’s Nathan Otterson, Senior Conservator, Objects, and Tracey Bashkoff, Director of Collections and Senior Curator, describe the demanding process …
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Explainer videos are exceptional or awful. 1950s explainers were films and usually pretty great.
Today, corporations make short explainer videos fast and on the cheap. And, most of them look it. While popular data …
The one about a banana duct-taped to a wall. And, that Cattelan person—crazy, crafty, or clever?
In describing Maurizio Cattelan, The Museum of Modern Art says, “In the grand tradition of Italian comedy that stretches from the …
Theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s 18k gold toilet is the story behind a new insurance commercial.
Satirical participatory art can move people in unexpected ways. America, the fully functioning gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan—an 18k representation …
Read a good art book lately? The Getty has over 300 for you to download, read, and keep.
Since the Getty Museum launched its virtual library in 2014, its publications have been downloaded more than 400,000 times. The …
At NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 9 through September 8 — CAMP: Notes on Fashion.
What do John Waters’ movies, Cher’s stage shows, and Dame Edna Everage’s comedy all have in common? Camp. Camp, as …
Meet the late Hilma af Klint. The New York Times calls her work “jaw dropping, staggering.”
Hilma af Klint was born in Stockholm in 1862. Af Klint started to create radically abstract paintings in 1906—years before Vasily …
THE MET celebrates International Women’s Day with a Heilbrunn Timeline of Women artists.
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art created a timeline of women artists and their work as part of their …
Baltimore Museum of Art presenting ‘John Waters: Indecent Exposure’—and, they’ve just gilded the lily.
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) may have just redefined binge watching. On Friday and Saturday, November 9 and 10 …
Painting becomes a performance—Banksy shreds self at Sotheby’s seconds after successful sale.
I’m not a fan of Banksy’s art, but his works of political and social commentary thrill me. So, I’m loving …
Pressured by Republicans, University of Kansas censors art. Then vacillates, sort of.
A conceptual piece of flag art was flying full staff in front of Spooner Hall at the University of Kansas …
A Wienermobile, Old Number 7, is headed to a museum as an interactive exhibit for kids. I’m glad.
The days of taking the 1952 Oscar Mayer Wienermobile—known as Old Number 7— for a ride are over. The sculpture …
The Trumps asked to borrow a van Gogh from the Guggenheim; head curator had a better idea.
The Washington Post’s Paul Schwartzman is reporting that the White House asked the Guggenheim for a loan of Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 …
Only this weekend and only in New York: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library
Even the press release from Comedy Central is a laugh riot: NEW YORK, June 13, 2017 – The grand opening …
The man and his can. Christie’s 106-page discourse on a painting is extraordinarily insightful.
At 6:30 p.m. on May 17, 2017, in New York—at Rockefeller Center—Christie’s will hold sale 14187, Post-War and Contemporary Art. Sale …
Warhol, a red crayon, and a Brillo Box (3¢ off) come together in a smart, new documentary from HBO.
In 1968 Lisanne Skyler’s father purchased one of Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes for $1,000. 40 years later that same Brillo Box (3¢ …
NYC. State-of-the-art, Second Avenue subway stations feature awe-inspiring installations of public art.
Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled the largest permanent public art installation in New York State history in …
It’s ominous, massive, and startlingly thought provoking. It’s at The Hirshhorn. Meet the artist.
Jacob and I encountered Basualdo’s installation, The End of Ending, a few months ago. Winding our way around it was a …
Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece on display for the first time with the preliminary drawings at the Morgan
The Morgan Library & Museum: Completed when he was just twenty-three years old, Rembrandt’s Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver has long …
Lobsterama time at Gertrude’s
The arrival of August means it’s time for lobster at Gertrude’s! LOBSTERAMA! This year you can get your lobster as the …
