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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Your Thievin’ Art? At Play in the Field of Fair Use
Your mug shot. Your profile picture. Your breakfast table. Is anything safe from appropriation artists? Read More
Poached Eggs: Drawings Based on Angry Birds
A popular video game inspired Lee Walton’s abstract artworks Read More
‘Rodin: Genius with Giblets’
Why the great sculptor is so exasperating, and other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago Read More
How van Gogh Became van Gogh
Drawing on an eight-year research project into the artist’s methods and materials, an exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum reveals how he taught himself to paint
Feher Play
Tony Feher’s messages in bottles—along with a spectrum of works from the last 25 years—launch a traveling retrospective Read More
Words with Friends: Artist-Poet Pairings
Picasso, Ashbery, Rivers, Johns, Motherwell, Alberti and more in “The Artist and the Poet” at the Art Institute of Chicago Read More
The Gentle Giants of Rockefeller Center
Provoking feelings of awe—and awww, Ugo Rondinone’s modern megaliths are among the public artworks redefining the idea of the monumental Read More
Suite Memories: Art for JFK and Jackie
An exhibition in Texas reassembles the art that decorated the Kennedys’ hotel suite on the night before the president was assassinated Read More
Let My People Go—Back to Poland
“And Europe Will Be Stunned,” Yael Bartana’s celebrated film trilogy introducing Poland’s Jewish Renaissance Movement, arrived at Petzel Gallery for its first New York showing–just as a new museum devoted to Jewish culture was opening its doors in Warsaw. Suddenly things got a lot “more real” Read More
The Offal Truth: Flowers That Trick the Eye
Heide Hatry’s hairy, scary, florals Read More
Dome Improvement—What’s an Art Museum Doing in Rockaway Beach?
MoMA PS1’s VW Dome 2 is the latest in a wave of museum outposts that are humble, nimble, and temporary, offering free admission—and much more than art Read More
