After a delay, Maurizio Cattelan’s “America”—an 18-karat golden toilet installed in a Guggenheim Museum bathroom—will finally open to the public tomorrow. Yes, it is functional. Call it…
Artists have long gotten away with murder, sometimes literally. After Benvenuto Cellini killed his rival, the goldsmith Pompeo de Capitaneis, in 1534, Pope Paul III—a Cellini…
The title of Hal Foster’s new book Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency is drawn from an oft-quoted maxim of Bertolt Brecht’s: “Don’t start with the good old days, but the bad new…
The Frieze New York art fair opened to invited guests today on Randall’s Island and runs through tomorrow. Below, photos from the preview.
This week’s New Yorker has a Talk of the Town piece by Emma Allen about moving a block of concrete from the Whitney’s former Upper East Side location to its brand-new Renzo…
Stunning, silk-wrapped, and limited-edition volumes from Ai Weiwei, Maurizio Cattelan, and more
Published in 2003, her book Corporate Mentality is certainly a time capsule of the cultural economy at the turn of the millennium, but also provides a prescient guide to today's world, awash as it…
From artist-designed jewelry and accessories to limited-release prints and editions, we've assembled a list of 20 gift ideas for the art lover in your life
William Powhida and Jade Townsend are back with a satirical drawing of a lurid battleground where artists, posers, critics, dragons, Internet trolls, and Modernist ghosts fight for their lives