All Dressed Up
As more and more art museums showcase high fashion, their staffs are grappling with strategies for presenting it, funding it, and connecting it to their missions Read More
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Author Archives: Barbara Pollack
CHINA The Next Generation
China’s younger artists are introspective, sophisticated, and hyper-aware of their identity in a globalized world Read More
The Social Revolution
Today’s Facebook comments are tomorrow’s artworks as artists harness social technology to comment on how our new connectivity is changing our culture. Read More
Qi Baishi Painting Fetches Record $65M at Beijing Auction House
China Guardian Auction House, the second largest in mainland China, sold a 1946 triptych by Chinese modern painter Qi Baishi (1864-1957) for 425.5 RMB ($65 million), a record for a modern work of Chinese art. Read More
Crossing the Line in China
As Ai Weiwei continues to openly criticize Communist party policy, his international profile is rising—but so is government response. Read More
Scents & Sensibility
Gunpowder, grass, jasmine, pine, pollution, and patchouli are some of the odors wafting around galleries, museums, and studios these days as artists incorporate scent into the esthetic experience. Read More
True Lies?
Omer Fast's videos are mind-blowing mergings of artifice and truth, populated by refugees, soldiers, and other characters who may or may not be acting. Read More
You’re Engaged!
With artists increasingly involving the public in the creation of work, curators and museums have embarked on a quest to define, display, and collect participatory art. Read More
Removing the Veil
Nudity in contemporary art is tolerated increasingly in countries where it wasn’t in the past. Read More
What a Dump!
Garbage and garbage pickers are the subjects of Vik Muniz's work. Read More
The Other Americans
Photographer Justine Kurland takes her camera on the road across the country to capture communes, hobos, and other subcultures that are often off the radar. Read More
