During the early ’70s, Laurie Anderson was a mainstay in this magazine’s reviews section, often writing several reviews every issue. With her criticism receiving a shoutout from Alanna Heiss in Mo<a href="/art-news/artists/the-anti-museum-director-alanna-heiss-on-the-40th-anniversary-of-ps1-contemporary-art-center-6675/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…
Although William Wegman made his reputation as a photographer who combined wry humor and conceptualism, his two recent exhibitions showed him to be an accomplished painter with a sophisticated, highly…
William Wegman bought his first dog in California after responding to an ad in a Long Beach, California newspaper that said, “Weimaraners $35.” He called the new pet Man Ray. Wegman had…
An upcoming exhibition celebrates our four-legged friends with works by Dieter Roth, Louise Bourgeois, William Wegman, Edward Hopper, Pablo Picasso and more
A new Chelsea exhibition celebrates the achievements and all-around fabulousness of the art-world superstar
A new book chronicles the ways that artists ranging from Ansel Adams to Warhol, Close, and Wegman harnessed the speed and palette of the instant camera
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Vienna-based Impossible embarked upon its mission to save Polaroid in 2008, by leasing a factory that once belonged to the manufacturer. Polaroid filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and again in 2008, and st…
Artists are finding inspiration in gags, slapstick, clowns, comics, and stand-up comedy. The results are sometimes satirical, sometimes ludicrous, and sometimes ‘so funny you could cry’.