Author Archives: Carolina A. Miranda

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News

Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums?

In an attempt to balance copyright restrictions and ever-present camera phones, some museums are loosening their ‘no photography’ policies Read More

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Features

Painting the Sun and Sculpting Fog

San Francisco’s beloved Exploratorium moves to a new facility filled with site-specific artworks that help viewers analyze and understand the world Read More

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Trends

Weird Science: Biotechnology as Art Form

Tissue cultures, genetic modification, bacterial colonies. Over the last decade, more and more artists have been giving up the studio in favor of the laboratory Read More

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News

Lost in LA: TV Show Inspires an Art Show

An exhibition riffs on ideas related to displacement, loss, and other themes related to the popular television series Read More

Stefan Ruiz’s portrait of Daniel Cortes, 
a student at Televisa’s acting school in Mexico City, 2004.
Books

The Bold and the Beautiful

The art of Mexico’s telenovelas Read More

An installation view of “Miss You”
Looking at Art

Twin Peaks

Os Gêmeos bring street-art savvy to Brazilian folk tradition Read More

Yevgeniy Fiks in his guerrilla performance Communist Tour of MoMA, 2010
News

Seeing Red at MoMA

The museum sanctions a “Communist Tour” of the Diego Rivera show–and more Read More

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Features

A Scene Grows in Brooklyn

Artists by the hundreds have been flocking to Bushwick, a working-class neighborhood just east of trendy Williamsburg. Curators, collectors, and dealers are following Read More

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Trends

Biting the Hand That Feeds Them

A growing number of artists are poking fun at art-world inequities in their work—even as they participate in the system they critique Read More

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Trends

Comic Relief

The boundary between fine art and graphic novels has grown increasingly porous Read More

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News

L.A. Stories

Shining light on uncatalogued archives, misplaced works, and undocumented careers, more than 60 venues in Southern California present shows on the art of postwar Los Angeles Read More

White Frosted Cruller at Dawn, 2011.  COURTESY PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, NEW YORK, ISTANBUL
Profiles

Cosmic Comic

Kenny Scharf’s loopy, Pop-saturated paintings are back—in galleries and on the street. Read More